CHROMA, Book 1
The K-Pop Idol on the Cruise
CHROMA #1 — Teo's Story
He sailed to the far side of the world to become nobody. The woman in the stateroom next door is the one person alive who knows exactly who he is—and she's pretending she doesn't.
Twenty-eight nights. Barcelona to Singapore. A ship that can't turn back.
Lee Hae-won gave six years to the K-pop machine, dressing the brightest stars in the country while her own life quietly came apart. Burned out and newly unemployed, she empties her savings for one long escape at sea—and a notebook of promises to herself. Rule five: never touch the word idol again. Rule ten: no falling in love.
Then, through the frosted partition dividing her balcony from the next, she hears a man humming a song that was never released—a melody she heard a hundred times, years ago, in the dressing rooms of the group she used to dress.
Because the exhausted stranger next door is Teo: the center of CHROMA, the nation's biggest boy group, who walked away from his own fame and vanished onto this ship.
He falls for her because she's the one person who doesn't know his name. She falls for him because she knows him better than anyone—and can never say so.
For twenty-eight nights, behind a wall that opens just a crack, two runaways build something honest out of two impossible secrets. But every night at sea is one night closer to the final port—and the rule they made on the very first day: the moment we step off this ship, we go back to being strangers.
And when his world catches up with them, only one of them will be left to pay for what they felt.
The K-Pop Idol on the Cruise is a slow-burn, forced-proximity, ache-in-the-best-way K-pop romance about hidden identities, second chances, and being truly known by the one person you were trying to hide from. Bittersweet to its bones—with a happy ending worth every mile of ocean.
CHROMA #1 — Teo's Story. A standalone romance with a guaranteed happily-ever-after. No cheating, no cliffhanger.
Perfect for readers of forced-proximity and celebrity romance, of vacation flings that turn into forever, and for anyone who's ever wished the most dazzling person in the world could just be loved as an ordinary one.