The Month We Didn't Escape

Some people travel to find themselves.

Others travel to forget.

At twenty-eight, she's a therapist who spends her days helping other people heal while secretly drowning in wounds she refuses to face. Desperate for distance from the life she's running from, she books a month-long vacation on a secluded island, hoping the ocean can silence the memories that keep her awake at night.

Min Yoongi is thirty-three, exhausted, uncertain, and standing on the edge of a life that's about to change forever. One month before the world knows his name, he escapes to the same paradise looking for peace before everything becomes chaos.

Neither of them expects a chance encounter to turn into late-night conversations beneath starlit skies, sunrise walks along empty beaches, and a connection neither can explain.

But healing isn't simple.

The past doesn't stay buried.

And sometimes the right person arrives at the wrong time.

When two strangers meet while running from different ghosts, they discover that love isn't always about being saved-sometimes it's about finding someone willing to stay while you learn how to save yourself.

❝ Two strangers. One month. A lifetime of healing. ❞