She had one chance to make her story matter. He had one rule: never fall for the author. Amara Carter writes like her life depends on it—because it does. When her manuscript lands on editor Ethan Black’s desk, he sees the flaws, the fire, and the girl behind the words. Ethan Black doesn’t do relationships. He does contracts, deadlines, and clean breaks. But Amara’s words keep him up at night, and her silence hurts more than her arguments. As the deadline closes in, so do they. One wrong move and they’ll lose the book, the deal, and each other. A slow-burn contemporary romance about the price of chasing dreams—and the risk of choosing love.