WHATEVER LETS YOU COPE

In a city where every choice is made for you, obedience is mistaken for peace.

Rune Elowen has everything: status, security and a future carefully arranged for her. Next year she is to marry Rowan Steele. He's kind, he's handsome and he's intelligent, he's the perfect match. However, he believes in the system that is quietly suffocating her.

Because Rune is unraveling. She has secrets, dangerous ones.

Seven Hayes was once like her, privileged, controlled and trapped. Until the night he destroyed everything. Now, shaped by loss and survival, he belongs nowhere. Not the city. Not the outskirts, where rules loosen and people break.

When Rune finds Seven in the ashes of his past, both of them ready to end it all, something shifts.

What begins as salvation quickly spirals into obsession.

But love like theirs doesn't come gently.

It crashes, it scars.

It refuses to let go.