Thalia Villaflor has no time for love. Between running her café, baking mango tarts, and keeping her life from falling apart, she has enough on her plate already. The last thing she needs is Ethan Garcia, a serious, too-capable architect who walks into her world with rain on his shoulders, food in his hands, and the dangerous habit of staying. What starts with a laundromat meeting and a few shared meals slowly turns into something harder to deny. He is steady where she is sharp, gentle where she is guarded, and exactly the kind of man who makes her question every rule she made to protect her heart. But just when Thalia begins to believe in something real, old wounds, outside drama, and a crumbling future threaten to tear everything apart.