Blueprints and Cherry Blossoms: A Rivals-to-Lovers Workplace Romance in Kyoto

She was supposed to beat him. Falling for him was never part of the plan.Maya Chen designs with instinct, emotion, and a little beautiful chaos. Leo Vance designs with precision, control, and enough spreadsheets to plan the next decade. At their ruthless Manhattan architecture firm, they're brilliant rivals and they're competing for the same coveted promotion.Then they're sent to Kyoto to win the biggest project of their careers.There's just one catch: they have to design it together.And when a booking mistake leaves them sharing a traditional ryokan suite divided by nothing more than paper-thin shoji screens, keeping their distance becomes almost impossible.Maya sees a man hiding behind rigid rules. Leo sees a woman who refuses to follow them. But as they explore Kyoto, clash over a century-old cherry tree, and discover the wounds beneath each other's carefully constructed defenses, their rivalry begins to feel dangerously like something else.Chemistry becomes trust. Trust becomes desire. And desire changes everything.Just when their partnership and their hearts finally begin to align, a ruthless rival steals their breakthrough design. With their careers on the line and only 48 hours to create something new, Maya and Leo must decide whether they can trust each other when everything they've fought for is at stake.Because winning the promotion was supposed to be the goal.They never planned on finding a love worth risking everything for.For readers who love enemies-to-lovers chemistry, forced proximity, workplace romance, opposites attract, protective heroes, witty banter, and a gorgeous Kyoto setting.