She's been performing happiness her whole life. He's the first person who noticed.
Zoe Reeves has perfected being perfect—until the Meridian theater's magic offers escape. A mirror-world where happiness is real instead of rehearsed, where a perfect prince offers effortless love that demands nothing.
Tyler Bacon is the worst possible complication. The journalist sees too much. He makes her want to stop performing, and that terrifies her.
She reaches for the fantasy. No arguments. No vulnerability. No risk.
Tyler watches the woman he's falling for choose beautiful delusion over complicated reality. He's fighting to convince her that imperfect love is worth more than perfect fantasy—that messy intimacy matters more than fairy tale promises.
The survivors warn him: once someone finds their fantasy, they rarely return. Zoe slips further away each night. Tyler must choose: let her go to the dream she's always wanted or love her enough to shatter it.
When your heart is choosing between easy perfection and difficult truth, which love is brave enough to save you? Can Zoe learn that the best romance isn't the one that requires nothing, but the one that asks for everything you are?
Pick up this emotionally stunning fantasy romance about choosing the love that challenges you over the one that confines you.
Content Advisory: This novel contains depictions of mental health crises, including dissociation, depression, addiction-like behavior, and onstage crisis. It explores themes of psychological manipulation and gaslighting by supernatural entities. It includes multiple on-page consensual sex scenes, threats of assault, and instances of workplace danger.
Genre: General Fiction
Zoe Reeves has perfected being perfect—until the Meridian theater's magic offers escape. A mirror-world where happiness is real instead of rehearsed, where a perfect prince offers effortless love that demands nothing.
Tyler Bacon is the worst possible complication. The journalist sees too much. He makes her want to stop performing, and that terrifies her.
She reaches for the fantasy. No arguments. No vulnerability. No risk.
Tyler watches the woman he's falling for choose beautiful delusion over complicated reality. He's fighting to convince her that imperfect love is worth more than perfect fantasy—that messy intimacy matters more than fairy tale promises.
The survivors warn him: once someone finds their fantasy, they rarely return. Zoe slips further away each night. Tyler must choose: let her go to the dream she's always wanted or love her enough to shatter it.
When your heart is choosing between easy perfection and difficult truth, which love is brave enough to save you? Can Zoe learn that the best romance isn't the one that requires nothing, but the one that asks for everything you are?
Pick up this emotionally stunning fantasy romance about choosing the love that challenges you over the one that confines you.
Content Advisory: This novel contains depictions of mental health crises, including dissociation, depression, addiction-like behavior, and onstage crisis. It explores themes of psychological manipulation and gaslighting by supernatural entities. It includes multiple on-page consensual sex scenes, threats of assault, and instances of workplace danger.
Genre: General Fiction