"e;A masterclass in slow-burn tension with profound character development."e;— Hopeless Pluto, book bloggerHe knows her secrets. She doesn't know he exists.Disfigured, Ava Sinclair hides behind flawless performance, refusing to be defined by a small-town scandal or the face she barely recognizes in the mirror. Success might buy redemption, but healing from shame is a far harder journey.Her second chance arrives with a revolutionary AI project—technology that could change lives. But the software isn't ready. And neither is the man who built it.Aidan Wolfe never meant to get involved. Hiding behind firewalls and anonymity suits him just fine—until Ava logs in. To preserve the deal, he pretends to be the AI she believes in, just long enough to buy time to fix it.But what starts as a lie becomes an intimacy neither of them expected.Behind the screen, Aidan sees the woman Ava hides from everyone else. And Ava, believing she is talking to something that cannot judge her, begins to reveal the truth she has spent years burying.Then real feelings get tangled in a very real deception.When the truth surfaces, it won't just threaten their reputations. It could destroy the fragile connection they never meant to build.Dear Adam is a slow-burn contemporary romance with literary depth, a guaranteed HEA, and an emotionally intense story about masks, shame, secrets, and the courage it takes to be truly seen.Serenity Bea was longlisted in the 2025 New2theScene International Writing Competition and is a finalist in the 2025 Page Turner Awards.
