Not Your Typical Romance Story
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Lumina has one simple wish.
To live quietly.
No unnecessary visitors.
No troublesome strangers.
And absolutely no romance.
For someone who treasures peace, Wintermere seems determined to test her patience.
As winter settles over the village, unfamiliar faces begin appearing for reasons that have nothing to do with one another. Some seek answers. Some seek refuge. Others carry secrets they would rather keep buried.
Each path leads somewhere different.
A village physician.
A respected noble whose lifelong devotion to medicine has earned him both admiration and skepticism.
A forgotten truth waiting to be uncovered.
Or perhaps...
A destiny no one saw coming.
For reasons she would rather not investigate, troublesome people have an annoying habit of finding her.
Even worse...
Suspiciously handsome men become surprisingly common.
While Wintermere carries on as though nothing is changing, unseen threads quietly weave together, connecting strangers, villagers, old promises, hidden ambitions, and long-forgotten secrets in ways no one yet understands.
Lumina intends to stay out of all of it.
If only trouble shared the same opinion.
After all...
Some people search for adventure.
Adventure searches for Lumina.
Mind: You could still pretend none of this concerns you.
Lumina: That was the plan.
Mind: Then why do I have a feeling we're about to become very busy?
Lumina: ...I don't like it when you're right.
Mind: You could still pretend none of this concerns you.
Lumina: That's exactly what I plan to do.
Mind: You opened the door.
Lumina: ...That was my first mistake.
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