"They got the image. They didn't get the story. And somehow that was worse than if they'd gotten nothing at all."
Daniella Smith didn't move to Los Angeles to fall for a pop star. She moved here to build something that was entirely hers.
When she lands the lead dancer role in Apollo Star's music video, she tells herself it's just a job. Adam Lewis - the man behind the stage name - is charming, persistent, and impossible to read. He has forty million followers, a house in the Hills, and a loneliness he's stopped trying to explain. Daniella has a diner shift, a Koreatown apartment, and a hard-earned understanding of exactly what happens when you hand the wrong person the keys to your life.
She's not doing that again.
But Adam keeps showing up. Not with grand gestures - with crossword puzzles and bubble tea and the kind of honesty that doesn't feel like a performance. And Daniella, who has spent years being careful, finds herself considering something far more dangerous than a music video.
Wanting him back.
Dance for Me is a contemporary romance about two people who have both learned to protect themselves - and what it looks like when they decide, against every good reason, to stop.