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To everyone who sees, Summer Stone is a marvel of efficiency: a brilliant academic defending her PhD while obsessively managing her family's estate like a 1950s housewife.
Since the age of 7, Summer has treated her life as "The Perfect Project," molding herself into the ideal woman for Julian Thorne, her dad's golf buddy who, she overheard, wanted nothing short of a partner who is both a scholar and a domestic goddess.
Eversince then, Summer has curated every breath, every degree, and every soufflé for the moment of her 21st birthday-the night she officially becomes an adult. The night she plans to finally confess her love and claim her "happily ever after."
She drove to her family's country house where she grew up when she and Julian were neighbours. Julian, now retired, has moved back into the countryside to enjoy the third act of his life, after being a huge success in the city and handed over his business empire to his sucessors. Without wasting time, she invited Julian to dinner the night she turns 21.
But the night hits a wall she cannot control. When her flawless dinner ends not with a proposal, but with a polite, devastating rejection, Summer discovers the heartbreaking limit of her secret power. She can will the burnt roast to be perfect; she can will the storm clouds to clear; she can rewrite the very fabric of reality to suit her desires. But she cannot rewrite Julian. She can manifest the perfect stage, but she cannot force him to play the part.
It happens in a heartbeat. Devastated by the rejection, Summer screams in the solarium-and the room glitches.
The Perfect Project is the story of a young woman who spent a lifetime bending herself to fit the mould some man created, only to realize she was born to bend reality itself.