Running Nowhere

Hana is the busiest person she knows. Her calendars are a work of art, her color-coded lists are legendary, and her silver pen never stops moving. She is a high-performance professional in a world that demands constant movement. There is only one problem: none of it means anything. In the glass towers of the city, Hana is a master of the "Meeting about Nothing." She spends her days renaming digital files, optimizing empty systems, and performing the role of the vital executive while her real life waits outside the door.
She is running a race with no finish line, trapped in a "Digital Dream" that is slowly erasing her soul. Everything changes when Hana meets Mateo, a carpenter who listens to the whispers of wood, and sees a small button shop marked for deletion by her own company's software. Forced to choose between the frantic prestige of her career and the quiet reality of the physical world, Hana does the one thing she never thought possible: she stops.
Running Nowhere is a soft, intelligent, and humorous exploration of the modern cult of busyness. It is a story for anyone who has ever felt like a "null value" in a spreadsheet, or anyone who has looked at a full schedule and felt a deep, quiet longing for a simple afternoon. From the high-stakes chaos of corporate boardrooms to the gentle magic of a garden where tomatoes grow gold in the shade, Hana's journey is a relatable and heart-warming reminder that we are not machines meant to be optimized-we are people meant to be present.
Delicately written and emotionally honest, this novel is an invitation to put down the list, turn off the screen, and find the beauty in the spaces between the hours.