Directing the Ex

She came to Patagonia for the perfect location. She never expected to find her first love waiting there.

Zara Patel has built her Hollywood career on precision, control, and impossible logistics. Landing the hero location for a $200 million fantasy epic could finally give her the freedom to leave the studio system and build an agency of her own.

Then she discovers her competition.

Declan O'Connor is brilliant, reckless, infuriating and the man who broke Zara's heart five years ago.

Now they're forced to compete for the same career-defining assignment. But when a catastrophic vehicle breakdown, violent storms, and a devastating flash flood leave them stranded in the Patagonian wilderness, their professional rivalry becomes a fight for survival.

As they climb toward the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, Zara discovers that the man she remembers may not be the man he became. Declan catches her when she falls, risks his life to protect her, and forces her to confront the feelings she buried years ago.

Then an eighty-mile-per-hour whiteout traps them inside a breathtaking blue glacial cave and the truth behind their breakup finally comes to light.

Five years ago, Declan walked away because he believed loving Zara meant sacrificing her future.

Now, with survival hanging in the balance, they must decide whether the love between them deserves a second chance.

In the wilderness, there is nowhere left to run from the past or from each other.

Directing the Ex is a high-stakes contemporary romance featuring second chances, rivals-to-lovers tension, forced proximity, workplace chemistry, wilderness adventure, and a love that refuses to stay buried.