Two Strangers, One Last List

"Five strict rules. Thirty reckless days. One beat-up convertible. And rule number five: absolutely, under no circumstances, fall in love."

Five strict rules. Thirty reckless days. One beat-up convertible. And rule number five: absolutely, under no circumstances, fall in love. Mira Kapoor just traded her three-year relationship, a toxic design job, and her cheating ex’s twelve-hundred-dollar bottle of vintage Scotch, which she happily shattered against his bedroom wall, for pure survival. Standing on a suspension bridge overlooking the East River at midnight with nothing but her purse, she has nowhere left to go and nothing left to lose. Aarav Malhotra was supposed to celebrate his engagement tonight. Instead, his fiancée caught a one-way flight to London, his billionaire father tried to bribe the family to protect corporate stock value, and Aarav finally walked away from the sixty-four-floor empire built on his silence. When he finds a furious, captivating woman muttering at the river, his carefully audited life derails in a single conversation. Neither wants to go home to the wreckage waiting for them. So Mira proposes an insane escape: rent an old cherry-red convertible, hit the open highway, and tackle an unscripted bucket list together before facing reality. They establish five ironclad rules: 1. No checking work email. 2. No family obligations. 3. No exes. 4. No discussing what happens on day thirty-one. 5. And the non-negotiable clause: Do not fall in love. From crashing a lavish Punjabi wedding for butter chicken to waking up in Las Vegas with matching novelty brass rings, and an Arizona desert storm that leaves them stranded with only one motel bed, their boundaries ignite with every passing state line. Aarav insists he’s an untouchable strategist, but his knuckles turn white whenever another man looks in her direction. Mira swears her heart is bulletproof, but beneath Aarav’s tailored armor is a man who makes her want the very future she spent years running from. When corporate conspiracies and the ghosts of their past threaten to pull them back to New York, thirty days won't be enough. They’ll have to decide whether this was just a scenic escape from their ruins, or the only home worth fighting for.