Learning to Mourn

*Learning to Mourn* is a dark contemporary romance centered around grief, obsession, survival, and the dangerous comfort of being seen by the wrong person.

Nalice Carter is exhausted. Juggling two jobs while helping support her struggling family, she's barely keeping herself afloat after losing the future she once dreamed of. Once a talented athlete and dancer with scholarship opportunities within reach, life forced her into survival mode instead. Now, she spends her days answering phones at a logistics company and her nights trying to outrun burnout, loneliness, and disappointment.

Everything changes after an unexpected encounter with a mysterious man at work.

What Nalice doesn't know is that the man calling himself Andrew is actually Pedro Andrew Dominguez - the newly appointed CEO of TimeExpress Industrial Tech. Powerful, emotionally isolated, and quietly dangerous, Pedro becomes consumed by Nalice after recognizing her from a brief encounter months earlier. What begins as fascination quickly spirals into obsession as he inserts himself deeper into her life under the guise of protection, opportunity, and devotion.

As Pedro quietly manipulates the world around her to keep her close, Nalice finds herself caught between fear and attraction, suspicion and longing. The closer she gets to him, the more she realizes his attention isn't ordinary - it's possessive, calculated, and relentless.

In a world shaped by grief, financial struggle, family obligation, and emotional hunger, *Learning to Mourn* explores what happens when love begins to feel dangerously similar to control - and whether being loved intensely is worth losing yourself in the process.