Beyond the Seasons (eBook, ePUB)

At 28, Yoon Sae-jin is a young executive on the rise at the powerful Mirae Corporation in Seoul. Intelligent, meticulous and emotionally restrained, she hides behind her professional perfection the recent and devastating loss of her mother, victim of a rare hereditary cancer. Sae-jin refuses to show weakness, even in the face of suffocating grief. Every year, she travels alone to Paris, her city of refuge, where she relives memories of lighter times. There, she reunites with her inseparable childhood friends, the dreamy fashion er Baek Eun-soo and the irreverent French-Korean Camille Duval, owner of a small café in the Marais. During one of these encounters, Sae-jin meets Dr. Eliah Moreau, a brilliant and charismatic oncologist with a past as mysterious as the way he looks at her. Despite their immediate connection, Sae-jin imposes a distance. But fate insists on bringing them together when Eliah temporarily moves to Seoul for an international project with Haneul Hospital. Their friendship blossoms, giving way to a delicate love, but challenged by distance, Eliah‘s demanding profession, and the ghosts of both their pasts. Driven by the desire to live life to the fullest, they decide to travel the world together and fulfill a promise: to visit ten destinations before the seasons change. Japan, Iceland, Morocco, New Zealand... Each place becomes a chapter in the love that grows between them. However, time begins to take its toll. Back in Seoul, Sae-jin feels her body failing. The tests confirm the worst: she carries the same gene that took her mother. Faced with fear and pain, she hides her illness from everyone including Eliah. As if that weren‘t enough, she has to deal with Seo Na-kyung, a cruel and manipulative rival at the company, who sees Sae-jin‘s fragility as the perfect opportunity to rise. The unexpected return of Han Ji-won, her ex-fiancé now vice president of Mirae, reopens poorly healed wounds and heightens conflicts at work and in her personal life. On the other side of the world, Eliah begins to suspect Sae-jin‘s sudden silence and, upon discovering the truth, abandons everything to fight by her side. But the love that unites them will be tested not only by illness, but by family secrets, betrayals and decisions that could change the course of their lives forever.