Perfect Illusion, (Paperback)

What if the love of your life arrived at the wrong time-and never quite left?

Isla never expected him. Theo was everything her world wasn't-an American exchange student, full of charm and spontaneity, on borrowed time. She was the quiet strategist: a Virgo through and through-disciplined, devoted, always dreaming ahead. Their summer was only meant to last two months. But what bloomed between them was something that refused to fade.

When he left, he promised nothing. She held on to everything.

Over six years, Isla learns how love can linger in pixels, in silence, in memories-and in the smell of a hoodie folded in the back of a drawer. But life doesn't wait. New love arrives. A family grows. Just when Isla finally lets go, the past walks through her favorite café-older, softer, and full of unsaid things.

Perfect Illusions is a soul-stirring story about timing, heartbreak, and the quiet courage it takes to choose yourself. Told with lyrical depth and aching vulnerability, it explores what happens when love is real, but life has other plans.

For the overthinkers, the lovers of lists, the ones who wait too long, and those still learning how to say goodbye.