Beneath the Skin of Stars: SHE RAN FROM LOVE UNTIL CAME FOR HER.

Iris Cross has built her life around one rule: never trust anyone enough to let them hurt you.Safe inside her quiet home, surrounded by her garden, her lake, and the routines she can control, Iris has no intention of letting anyone disturb the peace she fought so hard to create.Then an international sweepstakes changes everything.She enters hoping to win a massage chair. Instead, she wins the grand prize: one month alongside SYN, one of the most famous K-pop groups in the world.Determined to survive only three days before being eliminated, Iris is thrown into a world of rehearsals, concerts, constant travel, cameras, strict rules, and seven men whose lives are far more complicated than they appear.What begins as an unwanted prize slowly becomes a journey that forces her to question everything she believes about trust, closeness, and the walls she has built around her heart.Iris has always believed that running is the safest way to protect herself.But some experiences follow you beyond every boundary. A deeply emotional contemporary romance about trauma, fame, trust, and the courage it takes to let someone in.