Joanna Baker likes being behind the scenes. As the costume designer on a new high-profile series, she's used to dressing stars, stitching seams, and staying far out of the spotlight. She smokes too much, keeps her sarcasm sharp, and lives in organized chaos with her four equally dramatic roommates.
She's not here for romance.
Especially not with anyone like Pedro Pascal.
But when a casting shake-up brings Pedro onto set, easygoing, observant, and unexpectedly warm, Joanna finds herself drawn to him in ways she can't explain. And when fellow actor Theo James starts showing interest too, she's forced to confront feelings she's spent years tucking away under work, wit, and cigarettes.
Caught between the steady pull of a new connection and the slow burn of something she's afraid to name, Joanna must navigate friendship, grief, ambition, and the intimacy of being seen-truly seen-for who she is behind the seams.
A slow-burn, behind-the-scenes love story about timing, trust, and all the things that go unsaid.
Vivien never thought her favorite mafia novel would become her prison-until she woke up inside it, trapped as the villainess fiancée who was supposed to die.
She wasn't the heroine. She was the cruel woman who tormented Alina, the girl sold to Dante Moretti. A woman hated by everyone... and killed by the man she was promised to.
But Vivien remembers every page. Every betrayal. Every heartbeat before her death.
Determined to rewrite her fate, she avoids Dante and Alina, hoping to stay invisible.
Only Dante doesn't look away.
His icy gaze follows her like a predator's hunt.
The cold, ruthless mafia king becomes dangerously obsessed-with Vivien
She was never meant to be loved.
Now she's his only desire.
And in his world, obsession never lets go.
At this point she wasn't running from the plot
But his obsession..
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