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    After a decade away, Zen returns to Linkon carrying grief, chronic pain, and a life half-rebuilt around quiet routines—barista shifts at a waterfront café, freelance design work, and art she never meant anyone to see.

    She doesn’t know that five men—already entwined with one another—are about to orbit her life in overlapping ways: an artist who notices her work before her face, a doctor who sees what she refuses to treat, a former soldier turned EMT who recognizes her calm in crisis, a quiet stargazer drawn to her silences, and a man whose shadowed world already bears her fingerprints.

    None of them realize they’re falling for the same woman.
    She doesn’t realize how deeply she’s already entangled.

    A canon-adjacent, slow-burn poly romance about grief, healing, desire, and the quiet gravity of finding your way back—one connection at a time.

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