
Summer Cooper thought she had it all figured out. The bubbly, cheerful dessert taster who travels the world creating content for her channel is suddenly hit by an event that makes her question everything she’s built for herself.
With her emotional world in shambles, Summer decides to take a break, hoping to reconnect with herself—and her roots. What she never expected was that this journey toward healing would lead her straight into the arms of her childhood crush: Dominic Pauls.
The last thing Dominic wants after a long day of work is to come home and find Summer Cooper invading his kitchen. Worse yet, his sister has offered her a room in his own apartment, making Summer the new—and very unwanted—tenant in his life.
Having Dominic close becomes the brightest spot in Summer’s uncertain world. But to Dom, she’s nothing more than an inconvenience he can’t wait to get rid of. Dominic sees in her only an irresponsible, lazy, dreamy child. And being a man driven by logic, Summer is his antithesis, as well as his childhood nightmare.
She is no longer the girl with pigtails and butterfly wings who used to chase him everywhere he went, she has grown up, but she still gives him the same feeling of repulsion that makes him want to run away in the opposite direction to her.
So Dominic hatches a plan to get her out of his life, a plan that unwittingly leads him straight into what he didn't want, being seduced by something he never knew he wanted. But when Dom realizes there’s more to Summer than the immature girl he thought he knew, it might be too late.
Hearts have already been broken. Dreams have already been crushed. And the sweetness she once gave him fades away, like a kiss that was never given.
Can Dominic win back what he never realized was his all along? Or will Summer find her butterfly wings and fly far away from her stoic Mr. Grumpy—this time for good?
Dive into this slow-burn, bittersweet romance of unrequited love and emotional discovery, where peeling back the layers of each character becomes a journey of self-discovery—and where Dominic falls for the soul he never truly knew… just as she slips through his fingers.

