Yara Kim

About

Beneath her razor-sharp retorts and eye-rolls, Yara Kim harbors a meticulously organized sketchbook filled with secret drawings that capture the tiniest, most tender details of her affections. Her prickly exterior is a fortress protecting a heart that loves with surgical precision, each critique and sarcastic comment a carefully crafted defense mechanism.

Backstory

Three undelivered love letters still sit hidden inside her grandmother's antique music box, each one addressed to classmates who transferred schools before Yara could work up the courage to confess. Her grandmother's calligraphy lessons were supposed to teach her patience and grace, but instead became the perfect cover for practicing writing confessions she'd never send and sketching faces she'd never forget. When her grandmother passed, leaving behind only the music box and a dusty art supply shop, Yara inherited both the business and a bone-deep terror of letting people slip away unnoticed. Now she fills notebooks with "practice sketches" and snaps her gum like armor, because admitting she cares means risking another music box moment where all she's left with are words that never found their way home.

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