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Roselyn Reyes has spent her life learning how to move between worlds.
At work, she's Roselyn-polished, capable, and fluent in the complicated language of culture and communication. To the loud, loving Dominican family that raised her, she's simply Rosí.
Then one terrible misunderstanding in Seoul changes everything.
When a member of Kim Nam-Joon's security team mistakes Rosí reaching for her phone as a threat, she is violently tackled and rushed to the hospital with injuries that leave Nam-Joon horrified-and determined to take responsibility.
He should have apologized and walked away.
She should have accepted the apology and never seen him again.
Instead, Nam-Joon stays.
One hospital visit becomes breakfast. Breakfast becomes text messages. Text messages become quiet drives through Seoul, stolen conversations, translator apps, family interrogations, and dates neither of them can keep pretending to mean nothing.
But falling for Rosí means entering a world Nam-Joon doesn't yet know how to speak his way through-a Spanish-speaking family fiercely protective of one of their own, a father who can threaten him without understanding a word of English, and traditions built long before he arrived.
And loving Nam-Joon means Rosí must learn how to navigate a life far different from her own: fame, scrutiny, cultural expectations, distance, and the many versions of the man behind RM.
Somewhere between Korean and Spanish, Seoul and New York, family and fame, they begin creating a language that belongs only to them.
To everyone else, she is Roselyn or Rosí.
But on Nam-Joon's lips, she becomes something no one else is allowed to call her.
Rose.
Because sometimes the most important things between two people aren't lost in translation.
Sometimes they're found there.
Some conversations change everything. Some love stories create a language of their own.