Sensibility Romance Series

She reads people for a living. He’s the one man she can’t decode.

Cleo Ambrosia’s uncanny ability to read people has made her indispensable to New York’s power players. Behind the reputation of “human lie detector,” she’s built a career on perception, control, and never being caught off guard. A former figure skating prodigy turned executive coach, Cleo is sharp, strategic, and deeply practiced at staying composed.

But when a cutting-edge tech firm hires her to refine their emotional intelligence strategy, she meets Dillon Whelan, the one client whose responses resist her instincts entirely.

Dillon built his success on logic, precision, and control. Systems that have never once asked him to be vulnerable. Cleo’s insight threatens the order he relies on, and their boardroom exchanges sharpen into a careful dance of wit and resistance, each conversation revealing more than either intends.

As professional lines blur and trust deepens, both must decide whether intimacy is worth risking the armor they’ve spent years perfecting.

What begins as a razor-sharp war of words deepens into a slow-burn romance that carries them from New York’s pressure-cooker intensity to the quiet reckoning of York, England, where ambition and vulnerability can no longer stay neatly separated.

Mind Reader is a clean, emotionally intelligent, slow-burn contemporary tech workplace romance about ambition, perception, and the courage it takes to be known.

Written with restraint and layered character growth, it offers a deeply satisfying, faith-touched happily-ever-after without explicit content.

For listeners who enjoy the emotionally driven, character-first love stories of Taylor Jenkins Reid, Sally Rooney, Katherine Center, and Emily Henry, with a clean, closed-door approach and a quieter, more deliberate pace.

Content note: Closed-door, PG-13 romance. Themes include grief, complicated family dynamics, and emotional recovery, handled with care and without explicit scenes.