[Enjoy the first 3 chapters of this Contemporary Romance]

She reads people for a living. He’s the one man she can’t decode.

Cleo Ambrosia’s uncanny ability to read people has made her indispensable to New York’s power players. Behind the reputation of “human lie detector,” she’s built a career on perception, control, and never being caught off guard. A former figure skating prodigy turned executive coach, Cleo is sharp, strategic, and deeply practiced at staying composed.

But when a cutting-edge tech firm hires her to refine their emotional intelligence strategy, she meets Dillon Whelan, the one client whose responses resist her instincts entirely.

Dillon built his success on logic, precision, and systems that do not require emotional exposure. Cleo’s insight threatens the order he relies on, and their boardroom exchanges sharpen into a careful, restrained dance of wit and resistance, where what is left unsaid carries as much weight as what is spoken.

As professional lines blur and trust deepens, connection does not arrive in a rush. It unfolds gradually, through watchfulness, quiet challenges, and moments that linger longer than expected. Both must decide whether intimacy is worth risking the armor they have spent years perfecting.

What begins as a razor-sharp war of words deepens into a slow-burn romance that carries them from New York’s pressure-cooker intensity to the quiet reckoning of York, England, where ambition and vulnerability can no longer stay neatly separated.

Mind Reader is a clean, emotionally intelligent, slow-burn contemporary tech workplace romance about ambition, perception, and the courage it takes to be known.

Written with restraint and layered character growth, it offers a deeply satisfying, faith-touched happily-ever-after without explicit content.

For readers who enjoy emotionally driven, character-first love stories with a quieter, more deliberate pace, similar in tone to Jessica Redland, Jenny Proctor, and Savannah Scott, Mind Reader rewards patience with intimacy that is earned, not rushed.

Content note: Closed-door, PG-13 romance. Themes include grief, complicated family dynamics, and emotional recovery, handled with care and without explicit scenes.