Evie von Stein exists between two worlds. Some days, she's Evangeline, the perfectly polished daughter of a powerful family, bound to a legacy of expectations she never asked for. But away from gilded halls and carefully curated reputations, she's just Evie: a chaotic engineer in a cramped apartment, finding solace in secondhand coffee mugs, and the soft, unexpected comfort of the people she's let into her real life. Especially him-her intense, guarded neighbor whose presence unnerves and steadies her in equal measure. But when old loyalties and hidden truths begin to surface, she's forced to confront a much harder question: Can she expose the truth and bring a system to its knees-without destroying the only people who still believe in her?

"How far would you go to hold onto something that feels like destiny, even if time is running out?" Jake, a young man searching for meaning, finds himself drawn to the quiet, radiant presence of a girl, his Star, unaware of the illness she hides. What happens when two lives cross paths, one carrying hope and the other shadowed by a hidden battle? As Jake follows the pull he feels toward her, he faces questions of love, loss, and the fragile beauty of moments that may slip away too soon. In the face of uncertainty, can we truly cherish something we're never sure we'll keep?