Elara's life is a creative, chaotic mess. Leo's is all about stability and solid plans. When a kitchen flood forces the freelance designer to knock on her quiet engineer-neighbor's door, they find an unexpected connection in their shared loneliness. But as their worlds collide-through family pressures, career crises, and the terrifying vulnerability of real love-they'll have to learn that building something lasting means weathering the cracks, not pretending they don't exist. A deeply relatable, steamy, and heartfelt contemporary romance for anyone who knows love is a verb.