Gretchen Redd – författare

Fear keeps them apart. Music pulls them together.Baebin, the eldest member of K-pop sensation Insatiable7, is supposed to have everything figured out - but he doesn't. he's overwhelmed by responsibility, uncertainty, and the woman who unexpectedly captures his interest.Go-Ri is a hidden musical prodigy whose soulful, aching artistry leaves him stunned. After a devastating choice nearly destroyed her, she hides behind teaching, refusing to risk life again.Drawn to her resilience and guarded heart, Baebin can't walk away - from her music, or how she sees the real him. As he battles fame, charts, and pressures with his friends in IN7, Go-Ri struggles to maintain her defenses.Together, they must confront fear, trust, and the shadows of her past to find a future neither expected.A slow-burn, spicy K-pop romance about fame, healing, and the courage to love despite everything.

Leaving was easy. Coming back is harder.After ten years, she called him on impulse. He showed up at her door on purpose. Now Paek Jaemin is tangled up in Kwan Seoyun's complicated, beautiful, carefully rebuilt life — and neither of them is willing to walk away again. A New Coda is an emotionally charged second-chance romance set against the world of K-pop, where the biggest risk isn't the stage — it's finally facing the truth. decade ago, Paek Jaemin ran from his first love and the friends who broke his heart. Fame gave him the excuse to never look back—until one phone call changed everything.Abandoned by her best friend and then by her husband, Kwan Seoyun raised her young son alone—in poverty and loneliness. When she finally calls the boy she never stopped loving, she never expects him to answer... or to show up at her door.But Jaemin is back. And Seoyun is still married.Torn between a past full of unresolved truths and a present that is complicated and undeniable, the two must face what was left unfinished between them. Amid glittering stages and stolen moments in a cramped apartment, they must decide how much they are willing to risk—and whether love, the second time around, is worth the cost of finally getting it right.A New Coda is a story of timing, survival, and the courage to return--not to rewrite the past, but take a chance to create a different ending.