He is the world's most famous prisoner. She is the girl who sees through the glass.Kim Jae-yoon is the "Moon Prince." As the leader of ECLPSE, the biggest K-Pop group on the planet, his face is on billboards from Tokyo to Times Square. To the world, he is perfection: sculpted, smiling, and untouchable. But behind the blinding stage lights and the screaming fans, Jae is drowning in the static. He is exhausted, injured, and trapped in a contract that owns his body and soul.
Melanie McCormick is the "Giant." Standing nearly six feet tall, the shy nineteen-year-old heiress has spent her life trying to shrink. Dominated by a ruthless father who views her as a business asset, Melanie hides her height, her curls, and her heart, believing she takes up too much space in a world that wants her small.
Their worlds collide at 3:00 AM in the hallway of a luxury Chicago hotel.
There are no cameras. No bodyguards. Just a boy in socks looking for ice and a girl looking for an escape.
In the quiet of the night, Jae doesn't see a monster; he sees a sanctuary. And when he slips a stolen burner phone into her hand before vanishing back into the spotlight, he offers her a dangerous invitation: to find the signal in the noise.
As ECLPSE's world tour rages on, a secret, digital intimacy blooms between the idol and the heiress. But in an industry where dating is a scandal and image is everything, their connection is a ticking time bomb.
He calls her his architecture. She calls him her escape. But can a love built in the dark survive the light?
"You are not a monster. You are architecture. You are a skyscraper. Who wants to be a house when they can be a tower?"
Static & Starlight is the first book in The Starlight Series, an angst-filled, cinematic contemporary romance about the price of fame and the courage to take up space.
