Kaitlyn Summers and Joshua Holt have been the best of friends for twelve years - since senior year of high school. What started as weekly movie nights for decompression in high school has become a long-standing tradition that's lasted the duration of their friendship. It was never anything more than just a fun night. But when Joshua proposes marriage one night over an empty popcorn bowl and disgustingly sweet sodas, Kaitlyn can't help but wonder what forever with her best friend might really look like - for real.

Katia's stream was her safe place. Low-key. Low-viewer. Low-risk. Until Vybehawk, streaming's golden boy, raided her mid-fishing rant and turned her quiet swamp of self-loathing into a feeding frenzy. Chat begged him to collab with her. Then they told him to "test her." So he did. She left. On stream, mid-viewer-peak. And the internet felt it. Now, Vybe's in freefall, facing the wreckage of the persona he built and the woman who refuses to be his next "bit." But Katia doesn't trust sudden attention. She's lived through "new and shiny" turning into "too much and disposable" before. If Vybe wants to be more than a spectacle, he'll have to unlearn everything that made him famous-starting with the idea that people are content. No raids. No clickbait. No chat as a buffer. Just him. Just her. Off stream.

ʙᴇɴᴇᴀᴛʜ ʜᴇʀ ᴘᴜʀɪᴛʏ, ʜᴇ ꜰᴏᴜɴᴅ ꜱɪɴ. ᴀɴᴅ ᴍᴀᴅᴇ ɪᴛ ꜱᴄʀᴇᴀᴍ. ʜᴇʀ ʙᴏᴅʏ ᴡᴀꜱ ʜɪꜱ ᴄᴀɴᴠᴀꜱ. ᴛʜᴇɪʀ ʟᴏᴠᴇ, ᴀ ᴅᴀɴɢᴇʀᴏᴜꜱ ᴍᴀꜱᴛᴇʀᴘɪᴇᴄᴇ. ᴀʀɪᴀ ᴄʀᴏꜱꜱ ʜᴀꜱ ʟɪᴠᴇᴅ ʜᴇʀ ʟɪꜰᴇ ᴜɴᴅᴇʀ ʜᴇʀ ꜰᴀᴛʜᴇʀ'ꜱ ꜱᴛʀɪᴄᴛ ʀᴜʟᴇꜱ, ʜɪᴅɪɴɢ ᴀ ᴡɪʟᴅ ꜱɪᴅᴇ ꜱʜᴇ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ ꜰᴜʟʟʏ ᴇxᴘʀᴇꜱꜱ. ᴛᴀᴛᴛᴏᴏ ᴀʀᴛɪꜱᴛ ʀʏᴅᴇʀ ʙʟᴀᴄᴋ ʜᴀꜱ ᴀ ʀᴇᴘᴜᴛᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ꜰᴏʀ ᴅᴀɴɢᴇʀ, ᴀɴᴅ ᴀ ᴘᴀꜱᴛ ꜰᴜʟʟ ᴏꜰ ꜱᴄᴀʀꜱ ɴᴏ ɪɴᴋ ᴄᴀɴ ᴄᴏᴠᴇʀ. ᴛʜᴇɪʀ ᴄᴏɴɴᴇᴄᴛɪᴏɴ ᴅᴇꜰɪᴇꜱ ᴇᴠᴇʀʏ ʀᴜʟᴇ, ɪɢɴɪᴛɪɴɢ ᴀ ᴘᴀꜱꜱɪᴏɴ ʙᴏᴛʜ ᴛʜʀɪʟʟɪɴɢ ᴀɴᴅ ꜰᴏʀʙɪᴅᴅᴇɴ. ⟡ʀᴀɴᴋᴇᴅ #1 ɪɴ ɢᴏᴏᴅɢɪʀʟxʙᴀᴅʙᴏʏ - 09.25⟡ ⟡ʀᴀɴᴋᴇᴅ #3 ɪɴ ꜱɪɴꜰᴜʟ - 08.25⟡ ⟡ʀᴀɴᴋᴇᴅ #2 ɪɴ ᴜɴʜᴏʟʏ - 08.25⟡

When Alessandra Moretti loses the prestigious restaurant she helped build from the ground up, her carefully curated world collapses overnight. Accolades, ambition, and endless hours in a five-star kitchen meant everything-until they didn't. Wandering into a quiet café with nothing but a want ad and her mother's voice in her head, Alessandra meets August: a man with calm eyes, a catering business, and a very inconvenient habit of making sense. Between burnt-out dreams and the promise of something simpler-but maybe more fulfilling-Alessandra must decide if starting over means starting small... or simply starting real. A slow-burn contemporary romance about food, fresh starts, and finding joy in the unexpected.