Kintsugi

Kintsugi is a contemporary romance about trauma, healing, and the quiet ways love takes root when two people learn to survive their own fractures.

Seo Do-hyun has built his entire life around control. Cold, precise, and ruthless, he is known in the business world as the Executor—the man responsible for dismantling corporate empires without ever letting anyone get close enough to see past his armor.

Maitê Schneider restores antique furniture in a small workshop in the heart of Seochon. A Brazilian woman living in Seoul, she believes that everything carries a history — especially that which seems irreparably broken.

When an unexpected encounter weaves their paths together, family secrets, deep-seated scars, and truths buried for decades begin to surface.

As an empire built on lies threatens to crumble, Do-hyun must confront not only his family's dark past but also the most dangerous possibility of all: allowing someone to truly see him.

Inspired by the Japanese philosophy of kintsugi — the art of repairing broken pottery with gold, embracing fractures as part of its beauty — this novel explores love, loss, trauma, redemption, belonging, and the courage it takes to start over.

For readers who appreciate deeply emotional romances, slow burn, complex characters, family secrets, emotional healing, and stories where love doesn't save anyone on its own, but instead provides a safe harbor for rebuilding to happen.