Slow Burn

Emerald lives by routine. Aging and alone, she anchors herself in ordinary rituals, and takes comfort in revisiting the moments that shaped her life: love, ambition, grief, and a quiet sense of purpose. For Emerald, memory becomes both refuge and escape, but past and present begin to blur as the nature of Emerald’s true predicament comes clear. Tender, cerebral and deeply human, *Where the Day Takes You* explores what it means to keep going when time itself has become unreliable … and whether choosing where to be is the same as choosing how to live.

In 13th century China, merchant's daughter Li Mei disguises herself as a man to join her father's caravan along the Silk Road. Her journey takes her from the Forbidden City to the markets of Constantinople, where she must navigate political intrigue, dangerous bandits, and her own growing feelings for a fellow traveler who doesn't know her secret.

After losing her job and her fiancé in the same week, botanist Emma Chen returns to her grandmother's flower shop in a small coastal town. There, she meets Jake Morrison, a reclusive landscape architect with his own painful past. As they work together to save the shop, they discover that sometimes the most beautiful things grow from the deepest wounds.