Mixed Signals: An Emotional Contemporary Romance

What happens when a trauma therapist falls for a man who is a textbook case of emotional unavailability?Naomi Achebe is a master of compartmentalization. As the clinical director of a prestigious music therapy program in Manhattan, she spends her days helping others heal from their pasts. She has a beautiful apartment, a thriving career, and a perfectly curated, stress-free life. But beneath her clinical armor, Naomi harbors a deep-seated anxious attachment-a childhood wound that taught her love is something you constantly have to earn.Elias Vega is broadcasting on a frequency of pure grief. Three years after a tragic accident took the life of his fiancée, the brilliant, brooding music producer has buried himself in the basement of his recording studio. He doesn't do relationships. He doesn't do intimacy. He firmly believes that he is a curse, and the safest thing he can do for the people he cares about is stay away.When a professional collaboration forces them together, the chemistry is instant, undeniable, and entirely gravitational. But the closer they get, the harder Eli panics. What follows is a devastating, magnetic cycle of intense connection and agonizing withdrawal.Naomi knows she should walk away. Eli knows he should let her go. But the resonance between them is too loud to ignore.To break the cycle, they won't just have to fall in love. They will have to dismantle the deepest parts of their own psychology, confront their ghosts, and learn the hardest lesson of all: how to stay.Mixed Signals is a deeply emotional, dual-POV contemporary romance that explores the agonizing reality of the anxious-avoidant trap, the power of healthy boundaries, and the beautiful, hard-earned peace of true consistency.Tropes: >Broken Hero / Healing Journey Mental Health Representation Professional Proximity Dual POV