THE PRACTICE BOYFRIEND

Cora Bennett has a PhD's worth of theories about how people lose themselves, one small surrender at a time. She just never thought she'd be the case study.

Three years into a relationship with the surgeon who saved her life, she has floor-to-ceiling windows, three deadbolts on the front door, and a boyfriend so attentive she's forgotten what her own opinions sound like. So when she joins a language exchange app to relearn the Korean she let go quiet years ago, it's supposed to be harmless. A hobby. Something he thinks is cute.

Then she matches with Taehyung - a tea shop owner in Seoul with his late grandmother's ghost in every drawer, a profile that says learning and an English that says otherwise, and a way of listening that makes her feel, for the first time in over a year, fluent in herself again.

It starts as word-of-the-day texts.

It does not stay that way.

A slow-burn, long-distance romance about the difference between being taken care of and being truly seen - and how far a woman has to go to find out which one she's been settling for.