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The Camellia of Ashcroft Mews
by Lila Summers
In fog-bound London, a planning officer and a rogue gardener risk everything to save a two-century-old camellia—and each other.
Maps of Home
by Lila Summers
A rain-soaked encounter on a bus sparks a dangerous, passionate fight to save a favela—and gives two wanderers a chance to finally call a place home.
Preserving the Beat
by Isabella Rossi
When a meticulous archivist is sent to box up a condemned samba school's relics, she instead uncovers a conspiracy—and the mestre who teaches her to feel the music, fight for it, and love it.
Fogbound
by Lila Summers
Suspended in a foggy cable car above Cape Town, a disgraced influencer and the guide whose words she stole confront the past—forcing a confession that could cost fame but might finally let them find real wonder and each other.
Letters Through the Rain
by Isabella Rossi
A meticulous traveler and a rickshaw driver stranded by a typhoon must carry a hidden wartime letter that could unravel two families — and lead them somewhere neither planned to go.
Blueprints for a Last Dance
by Lila Summers
An architect about to erase a neighborhood is pulled into a revelatory protest-dance that forces him to choose between profit and the people — and the woman who teaches him to see both.
Maple Steps in Pontocho
by Lila Summers
A pragmatic city planner learns an ancestral Kyoto dance to buy time for a beleaguered community—and discovers that preservation, protest, and love can move in the same rhythm.
The Map Between Us
by Isabella Rossi
A midnight bag swap in Barcelona leaves a wandering traveler holding a stranger's engagement ring and a chef questioning the life he built—forcing both to choose between roots and the open road.
Mosaic of Steps
by Isabella Rossi
When a sardana teacher and a returning architect discover a hidden ledger that could save a neighborhood or ruin a career, they must choose between duty and desire as love finds its rhythm in the city's mosaic heart.
When Our Journals Met
by Lila Summers
A chance swap of journals on Tokyo's Yamanote Line sparks a night of shared memories, uncertain futures, and a choice that could derail them both.
Choreography of Secrets
by Lila Summers
On a rain-soaked Tokyo rooftop, a disgraced councilman and a contemporary dancer stitch a ledger of corruption into movement, risking everything to turn their choreography into evidence.
The Aventine Journal
by Isabella Rossi
A lost leather journal tucked into Rome's famed keyhole pulls an Australian traveler and a conflicted local guide into a sudden choice between fleeing and staying for love.
Four Days and a Suitcase
by Ava Summers
A mistaken suitcase in a snowstorm sparks a four-day collision between a restless nomad and a travel photographer, forcing them to decide whether home can be a person rather than a place.
Beneath the Painted Veil
by Isabella Rossi
A meticulous conservator and a rogue drummer follow a secret rhythm through Rome to unearth a lost fresco—and rediscover how to live and love.
Rhythm Under the Lights
by Isabella Rossi
When a retired Broadway tapper and a startup CTO collide on a subway platform, a spontaneous duet forces them to choose between community and commerce — and each other.
When Butter Sings
by Isabella Rossi
After a scathing review destroys her bistro, a rooftop chef and the critic who unknowingly betrayed her are forced to confront whether food—and trust—can be rebuilt at the very edge of burning.
Notes in the Margins
by Isabella Rossi
When a meticulous translator uncovers her book-club crush's past as a smuggler of banned manuscripts, she must decide whether to embrace his dangerous truth or walk away from the life she loves.
A Love Beyond Time and Space
by Lila Summers
As two astronauts embark on a mission to Mars, they discover a romance that defies the very fabric of time itself.