Tangled Between Want and Should

What happens when the life you've built so carefully starts to feel like a beautiful prison?

Olivia Chen has everything she's supposed to want - a corner office at a prestigious Manhattan law firm, a three-carat diamond from her ambitious fiance Tristan, and her demanding father's approval for the first time in her life. She should be happy. She should feel something. Instead, she's suffocating under the weight of everyone's expectations, playing the role of the perfect daughter, the perfect partner, the perfect professional - while her own desires remain buried so deep she's forgotten they exist.

Then she meets Jake Morrison, and everything she thought she knew about herself shatters. He's a carpenter renovating her building, covered in sawdust and completely wrong for her on paper. He doesn't care about her last name or her credentials. He sees past the polished exterior to the woman underneath - the one who dreams of painting instead of practicing law, who wants messy and real instead of curated perfection. When Jake looks at her, Olivia feels something she hasn't felt in years - alive.

Their connection ignites a passion that terrifies and thrills her, forcing her to confront the truth she's been avoiding. The life she's living isn't hers. It never has been.

But walking away means devastating her family, destroying her career, and breaking an engagement that ties together two powerful families. Olivia finds herself caught between the security of should and the reckless pull of want, between being who everyone needs her to be and discovering who she truly is.

As the pressure mounts and her wedding date approaches, she must make an impossible choice. Can she find the courage to disappoint everyone who matters to claim the life and love she actually wants? Or will she sacrifice her own happiness to maintain the perfect facade that's slowly killing her spirit?

This emotional and steamy romance explores the courage it takes to rewrite your own story, even when doing so means breaking all the rules. Olivia's journey from dutiful daughter to empowered woman will resonate with anyone who's ever felt trapped by expectations, torn between playing it safe and taking a leap of faith.

With sizzling chemistry, authentic family drama, and a heroine you'll root for from page one, Tangled Between Want and Should asks the question: What would you risk for a chance at real happiness?