What will Mark Holder sacrifice to save the environment? Mark Holder and Steven McDolmades are creating a revolutionary solid-state battery. It’s eons ahead of the current state-of-art power storage technology. It’s the sum of their life’s work, and they name their company, Sum Lives. Mark falls in love with Deja, a beautiful and enchanting painter. But she eventually becomes frustrated by Mark’s hectic work schedule, and he must decide between love and the battery he’s creating. Dimitri Hayden, billionaire leader of a shadowy consulting organization, has a personal vendetta against disruptive technology because of the income inequality he believes it creates and tries to bankrupt Sum Lives. Eric Nolan, a mole planted by Dimitri in Sum Lives is torn as to which side he should be on when he discovers a way to use Sum Lives’ battery to make twice what Dimitri is paying him. Can Mark succeed without losing the woman he loves? Will Dimitri bankrupt Sum Lives? Will Eric succumb to his greed and switch sides? And what will Mark and Steven do after they find out what Eric is up to? Sum Lives is a love story. It’s also about the price of success, the challenges of an artistic temperament, and the impact of technology on income inequality.