Trainee Heart

My K-Pop Boyfriend: Lone Star — Book 1

He was twelve days from debut. Then his father got transferred to Texas.

Kang Tae-Bo was the main dancer of AXIS, Korea's hottest pre-debut boy group. Three years of grueling training. Twelve million YouTube views. A debut stage with his name on it — twelve days away.

Then his father's company sends the family to Ridgeline, Texas. Population: 14,200. One high school. One Dairy Queen. Zero Korean restaurants. And absolutely no one who understands what he lost.

Tae-Bo doesn't plan to stay. He doesn't plan to care. He definitely doesn't plan to fall for Hailey Monroe — the sharp-tongued, book-reading, secretly suffocating girlfriend of the starting quarterback.

But Ridgeline has a forgotten auditorium with a dusty stage. And Hailey has a way of standing in doorways at exactly the wrong moment. And when Tae-Bo dances for the first time since Seoul, the girl who wasn't supposed to be watching becomes the only audience that matters.

Now the quarterback is threatened. The school is watching. AXIS is debuting without him. And the boy who lost everything is discovering that the scariest thing isn't losing your dream — it's finding a new one in the last place you expected.

Trainee Heart is a YA contemporary romance about identity, culture clash, first love, and the courage it takes to stand still when everyone else is performing. Perfect for fans of To All the Boys I've Loved Before, XO, Kitty, and Friday Night Lights.

Book 1 of 5 in the My K-Pop Boyfriend: Lone Star series.

Clean romance. Dual POV. Slow burn. BookTok-ready.