First published 2026
Ella Rose Holt stands on the edge of her golden birthday in Los Angeles, believing in quiet magic and chasing her acting career. Her life brims with possibility but feels incomplete. Christian Lucas lives by discipline and dedication as a professional baseball player. His world runs on careful schedules and guarded routines with little room for spontaneity. A chance meeting brings them together through a lucky number and a blind date that surprises them both. Their unexpected encounter grows into easy friendship, then steady trust, then undeniable romance. As their relationship deepens under stadium lights and red carpet moments, both must navigate the collision of their separate worlds. Ella and Christian face a choice between love and lives already packed with ambition, sacrifice, and dreams in motion. They must decide if they have room for romance alongside their individual pursuits. Their story builds on faith, timing, and the courage to embrace love when it arrives unexpectedly.
Genres: romance, contemporary, adult, adult-fiction, contemporary-romance
Vibes: emotional, heartwarming, hopeful, intimate, romantic
Tropes: forced-proximity, friends-to-lovers, second-chance-romance, slow-burn
Setting: Los Angeles
Period: 21st-century
304 pages · Paperback · Blue Box Press