Miles to Enlightenment

She's running from failure. He's running from success. Together, they might just find what they've been searching for. Sophia Chen is three years into building her dream-a boutique architectural firm that's barely staying afloat. Between marathon training at dawn and fighting to save her business by day, she has no time for distractions. Especially not the kind that comes in the form of James Takeda, the celebrity architect whose name alone could make or break her career.
When James proposes an unexpected collaboration on the project that could save her firm, Sophia knows she should be cautious. He's brilliant, demanding, and dangerously attractive. Worse, he sees right through the careful walls she's built around her heart. What starts as a professional partnership quickly becomes something neither of them planned for. Working together means early morning meetings over coffee, late-night calls about impossible designs, and the kind of creative chemistry that blurs every boundary.
As they transform a Napa Valley hillside into an architectural masterpiece, Sophia discovers that James isn't the arrogant genius everyone thinks he is-he's a man as afraid of vulnerability as she is, searching for meaning in a career that's left him feeling empty. But falling for your collaborator is a risk Sophia can't afford. With her business, her marathon qualifying time, and her carefully constructed life all hanging in the balance, she'll have to decide: keep running from what scares her most, or stop long enough to let someone catch up.
From San Francisco to Tokyo, through architecture studios and marathon finish lines, Miles to Enlightenment is a sophisticated contemporary romance about two perfectionists learning that the most beautiful designs are the ones you create together.