A Life Unscripted

Maya Lee Harper had long made peace with solitude. At twenty-four, she lives quietly in the sun-washed town of Magiston, where the hills roll gently and the cafés hum with stories. A writer by trade, she finds comfort in routine, in silence, in the gentle rhythm of a life lived alone-though never lonely.

But when Ethan Blackwood returns after three years abroad, the stillness of Maya's world is disturbed. Once her neighbour, and the brother of her closest friend, Ethan was bright and bold-a storm of charm and warmth who saw something in Maya she never quite understood. In all their time together, not a single word of affection passed between them. And yet, the memories have never truly left her.

Now, as fate draws their paths together once more, Maya is forced to confront what was left unsaid-and what still quietly stirs in her heart.

Complicating things further is Noah Stewart, her colleague at the Writers' Academy. Quiet, brilliant, and composed, Noah understands Maya's silences better than anyone. He is everything Ethan is not, and perhaps everything she needs.

Caught between memory and possibility, between the safety of solitude and the thrill of something unknown, Maya must decide not just who she loves-but the kind of woman she is willing to become.