Ellis Brewer is born inconveniently cursed: wherever he goes, small disasters follow. Gustaf Dunn is the opposite—an exhaustingly lucky prodigy who stumbles through life like the world itself conspires to cushion him. A Fate Stone ties Gustaf to Ellis’s little sister, Joy, unless Ellis can engineer a different kind of heart-wreck on Earth. Ellis has a loophole: as a Fate Academy apprentice he’s allowed brief daily visits to the mortal realm—enough time, he thinks, to set Gustaf up with a human so the divine betrothal can be broken. Practical, petty, perfectly planned—until Ellis meets the real Gustaf: a scrawny, bewildered child who treats Ellis like a lighthouse in a storm. Lucky doesn’t repel jinx; he just absorbs it. And Gustaf’s smile is an immediate, infuriating contagion. One day a year, Gustaf’s presence unspools miracles. For Ellis, every other day is waiting. Between stolen buses, midnight kidnappings, and a scandalous gala where a cane touches a mouth, a slow, stubborn thing grows: trust. Forbidden by academy rules and flummoxing to both their kinds, their closeness will either break fate—or break them both. A tender enemies-to-everything romance about how one person’s single day can be another’s whole year. LGBTQ+ slow-burn, found family, and a lot of bad luck turned very, very sweet.

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