Ivy Marston is exactly who she is supposed to be: top of her law class, perfectly composed, heirto a family story built on respectability and control. Every schedule is color-coded, every answermemorized, every feeling filed away. The path is clear. Deviating is not an option.

Then she ducks into a small bakery to escape the rain.

Lena Roe is flour on her hands, music turned too loud, early mornings and late invoices,stubborn hope and zero patience for people who treat working lives like scenery. She isn’timpressed by Ivy’s credentials. She is interested in the careful woman who keeps coming back,always a little overdressed for coffee, always watching the light through the stained glass like it’ssaving her.

As university deadlines and family pressure close in, Ivy finds herself drawn to Lena’sunapologetic honesty, and to the possibility of a future that isn’t scripted in someone else’shandwriting. Their connection unfolds in glances, shared jokes, late-night deliveries, and oneterrifying, exhilarating question: what if Ivy lets herself want something real?

Set against chapels-turned-galleries, rain-slick streets, and the warm glow of an overworkedoven, Ivy Rises is a quietly intense love story about shedding perfection, crossing class lines,and discovering that choosing your own life is the bravest kind of romance.