Limerence

Twenty-one women. One prince. One castle. And the love story the cameras never thought to look for.Larissa Okafor came to Elsenmark almost by accident - a casting call her sister forwarded to five email addresses, a plane ticket, a fairy-tale premise she never quite believed in. She's a pediatric cancer researcher who notices things: a loose strap, a stopped clock, the difference between a man who put his name on a building and a man who reads what comes out of it. She didn't come here to fall in love. She's going to anyway.Tiara came to win. She has a system - journals, timings, a column for every observation - and she is applying it, faithfully, to everyone in the castle. Especially to Larissa. Especially to Larissa.Told through rotating points of view, to-camera confessionals, and a producer who sees far too much, Limerence is a razor-sharp, deeply tender novel about attention: who we watch, what we refuse to name, and the person we become when we mistake longing for strategy. It's the dating show as you've never read it - a story about the difference between being seen and being filmed, and the quiet catastrophe of almost understanding your own heart.