Emotionally Unavailable and Proud

By Tony Hicks

Emotionally Unavailable and Proud is a sharp, romantic satire that redefines modern love through the lens of Ava Sinclair, a high-powered PR executive who's built her career-and her life-on the art of emotional self-preservation. After years of toxic relationships and exhausting entanglements, Ava decides she's done with vulnerability. Feelings are optional. Control is sacred. Her life is curated, compartmentalized, and ruthlessly independent. That is, until a disarmingly insightful therapist named Micah Langston enters her orbit-not to fix her, but to witness her. And that's far more dangerous.

As Ava and Micah's paths intertwine, she's forced to confront the emotional armor she's mistaken for strength. Through group sessions, girls' nights, awkward intimacy, and unexpected breakdowns, Ava begins the slow, often reluctant unraveling of the systems she's built to stay safe. This isn't a love story that rewards emotional labor with a diamond ring. It's a story about the messiness of choosing to be seen, the backslides that come with growth, and the courage it takes to let someone in when you've built your identity around keeping them out.

By the end, Ava doesn't surrender her independence-she redefines it. Emotionally Unavailable and Proud challenges the fairy tale and offers something far more radical: a heroine who learns that healing doesn't always look like "forever," and that the truest form of connection isn't about being saved, but about being met. It's not about happily ever after. It's about living intentionally ever after.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FR362BLY
• ISBN13: 9798265214683
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 114 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"