A Garden That Wasn't Mine

Twenty years ago, they met in a backyard that wasn't hers to play in-a barefoot girl with grass-stained knees and a girl who stood at the edge of the hedgerows like she was still deciding whether the world was worth walking into.

Twenty years ago, one late-night drive, one terrible decision, and one carefully manufactured lie tore them apart before they ever had the chance to begin.

Now Y/N Park is the new Director of Marketing and Operations at KW Conglomerate-handpicked by its chairman and carrying a secret she has kept for two decades: she has been looking for Yu Jimin her entire adult life.

Jimin is already there. General Manager. Brilliant, controlled, and armored in a pride she built with her own hands after losing everything else. She doesn't recognize the poised, assured woman who walks through the glass doors as her new director. She doesn't recognize her at all.

Y/N knows she should tell her the truth. She also knows that the last time she existed in Jimin's life, her family disappeared overnight, and she was nine years old, and she never got to say goodbye.

She cannot be made to disappear twice.

"A Garden That Wasn't Mine" is a slow-burn romance about two women who have been reaching for each other across twenty years of loss, class, grief, and the kind of love that does not know how to be anything other than stubborn. It is about anger that was never really anger, and pride that was never really safety, and the precise, devastating moment when someone you have spent your whole life searching for finally looks back.