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Elyse Zamora knows how to write endings.

Just never happy ones.

A bestselling author known for her tragic stories, Elyse has built a career out of heartbreak. Her readers adore the way she turns grief into beautiful words, but no one knows how much of herself she leaves behind in every story she writes.

Then she meets Kaiser Ylanan.

Kaiser is just another reader at first-one of several friends who genuinely enjoy books without making reading their entire personality. But unlike everyone else, Kaiser has a habit Elyse can't stand.

He sees through her.

What begins as a simple acquaintance slowly becomes something neither of them knows how to name. And when Kaiser casually gives Elyse an idea for a story, she turns it into something more than fiction.

It's about him and perhaps, for the first time, it's about her.

Because sometimes, the hardest thing to write isn't a tragedy.

It's ending the story the way it suits it.