Two award-winning architects, notorious for their rivalry and mutual disdain, are forced into a career-defining partnership: design a visionary cultural center in a disaster-stricken European city. He is all sharp edges, cold precision, and legacy. She is fiery passion, radical sustainability, and social conscience. Every meeting is a battle, every drawn line a provocation. But as they are thrown together in close quarters, from Chicago boardrooms to Balkan ruins, the thin line between hatred and obsession begins to blur. They discover that their deepest wounds mirror each other’s, and their strengths are the other’s missing piece. To win the project—and maybe each other—they must dismantle the walls they’ve built, confronting the truth that the person you hate most might be the only one who truly sees you.
