Exposed in Your Light

Lena Marr knows how to make other people look loved. After a public career collapse leaves her taking whatever portrait work will keep the lights on, she accepts a commission at Afterlight Arts: a gallery exhibition about adults rebuilding after loss, injury, burnout, and disgrace. It is supposed to be work with distance. Work with control.

Then she sees Ronan Shaw again.

Five years ago, Ronan was the brilliant pianist everyone wanted to watch, until one disastrous night made him the villain of the city's arts world. Now he is the careful director of the foundation hiring Lena, all restraint, severe suits, and devastating hands. He remembers her from before. Worse, he sees her now.

As Lena's exhibition turns toward hunger, recovery, and the cost of being truly witnessed, Ronan becomes the one subject she cannot safely frame. Their attraction is slow, sharp, and impossible to keep out of the work. But when old scandal, donor pressure, and Ronan's fear threaten to turn Lena's comeback into gossip, both of them have to decide what it means to be seen without hiding behind protection, politeness, or shame.

Exposed in Your Light is a sensual contemporary romance about art, mutual longing, hard-won consent, emotional recovery, and the dangerous mercy of being wanted exactly where you thought you were least beautiful.