CHROMA, Book 2
The K-Pop Idol Under the Northern Lights
CHROMA #2 — Dohan's Story
He spent eight years carrying everyone else. She spent six making sure no one could carry her. At the frozen edge of the world, a storm leaves them no one to lean on but each other.
Thirty nights. A lighthouse at the end of Iceland. A studio that will be sold in the spring.
Dohan is the leader of CHROMA, the nation's biggest boy group—the one who holds the team together, answers every call, and always gets off the ship last. Burned out to the bone and shoved out by the very sabbatical policy he fought to create, he lands at a lighthouse recording studio on a winter fjord to do the one thing he's never learned how to do: nothing. The world calls him Rio. Out here, he's just Dohan.
The woman who owns the place has exactly one rule. Don't take care of me. I don't need anything.
Kang Ji-eum was once the most sought-after sound engineer in the Korean music industry—until she was quietly made the scapegoat for someone else's mistake and erased in a single month. Six years later she lives alone at the edge of the world, recording every sound the fjord makes... every sound but her own voice.
She's the first person who wants nothing from him. He's the first person who won't let her disappear.
Snowed in together by a polar storm, with the northern lights the only color in a colorless world, a man who's only ever been loved for being useful and a woman who's certain she's safest needing no one start to build something out of nothing—an unfinished song, one shared pair of headphones, a life measured not in schedules but in the slow return of the light.
But his team is coming apart back home, the studio's sale is closing in like a deadline, and the oldest rule he lives by—the captain is the last one off the ship—is about to cost them both everything.
The K-Pop Idol Under the Northern Lights is a slow-burn, forced-proximity, ache-in-the-best-way K-pop romance about burnout and belonging: a caretaker who has never once been cared for, and a runaway who has never once been chosen. It's about being loved not for what you do, but simply for being here. Bittersweet to its bones—with a happy ending worth the whole long winter.
CHROMA #2 — Dohan's Story. A standalone romance with a guaranteed happily-ever-after. No cheating, no cliffhanger. (Each CHROMA book follows a different member and can be read on its own.)
Perfect for readers of forced-proximity and grumpy-sunshine romance, of snowed-in strangers and second chances, and for anyone who's ever wished the person who carries everyone could finally be carried too.