Miles Berg thought he knew the ending. Once a patient reader of a bestseller called Return Route, Miles wakes up inside the book as a small, reckless heir—meant to be a disposable character whose arc ends with lost money and a quiet retreat. Instead, he stumbles into Sebastian Schroeder’s life: brilliant, cold, and single-minded—someone who once saved him when he needed it most. Miles spends ten years chasing that rescue into marriage, believing love can rewrite a plot. When Sebastian grows distant—practical, proud, and publicly indifferent—Miles decides to stop stealing the wrong version of his life. He will do what the book said he must: exit. He walks away, signs a formal divorce, and accepts a bargain marriage that will secure the only safety net left to him: a frozen half of the Berg family fortune and a clean exit. Miles expects grief and solitude. He does not expect the hand waiting for him on his way out. After the Footnote is a contemporary M/M romance about a man who chose to be happy once, a man who realizes too late what he had, and the stubborn love that refuses to be an appendix in someone else’s story. It’s messy, loud, and tender—about ownership, shame, and the audacity of second chances.
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