Every Room You're In

She has spent six years building a life no one can disappear into. He crossed an ocean to become no one in particular. Then a project puts them in the same room.Elena reads rooms for a living. She can tell you why a door feels wrong, why a stranger hesitates, where a design loses your trust in the first thirty seconds. What she cannot do is let anyone close enough to read her. Six years in London, a loft she built to be safe in, a camera on the shelf she no longer lifts. It is a careful life, and it is hers.James came to London to be unknown. A city of eight million people who had never heard of his family, his father, the future laid out for him before he was old enough to choose it. He keeps his wanting in a drawer where it cannot embarrass him.The work throws them together, week after week, a marker changing hands across a table, until the work stops being the reason. Neither of them is built to need anyone. Both of them are about to find out what it costs to be seen, and what it costs not to be.A slow-burn literary romance about two guarded people, the distances we keep, and the things we set down on a shelf and tell ourselves we have stopped wanting.For readers of intelligent, emotional, character-driven love stories.

Pagina's: 202, Paperback, Independently published