Twelve Days

My K-Pop Boyfriend: Lone Star — Book 4

He went back to Seoul to chase the dream that was stolen from him. He didn't expect the dream to fight back.

Tae-Bo is exactly where he's supposed to be. Center position. New group. The debut he was twelve days away from getting — finally within reach. Zenith's training facility is sleeker, the choreography is sharper, and every morning when the elevator doors open on the seventh floor, he can feel it: this is what he was built for.

But Seoul has changed. Or maybe he has.

The trainees are talented and terrified. Jihoon has been waiting six years for a debut that keeps slipping away. Minjun's hands shake before every evaluation. And the system that creates K-pop's most perfect performers has a cost that nobody talks about — until a sixteen-year-old girl collapses in the practice room and Tae-Bo has to carry her to the lobby.

6,835 miles away, Hailey is holding everything together. Senior year. College applications. A mother who works doubles and is starting to crack under the weight. STEREO — the dance crew Tae-Bo built — is performing without their center, and Hailey is the one keeping them on stage. She doesn't have time to miss him. She misses him anyway.

The FaceTime calls are getting shorter. The fourteen-hour time difference turns every conversation into a negotiation between exhaustion and longing. Then the calls stop being daily. Then they stop being enough.

When a leaked photo threatens everything — Tae-Bo's debut, his reputation, and the one relationship that makes Seoul bearable — he has to decide what he's willing to lose. The industry wants him to lie. The girl he loves wants him to come home. And the boy in the practice room mirror doesn't know which version of himself is real anymore.

Twelve Days is the fourth book in the My K-Pop Boyfriend: Lone Star series — a story about the distance between who you were and who you're becoming, and whether the person waiting for you on the other side will still be there when you figure it out.

For fans of Jenny Han, Maurene Goo, and anyone who's ever loved someone in a different time zone.