Afterlight
November 10, 2025
When you sacrificed everything for your art, what’s left when the lights go down?
Katrina Barbas was a talented principal dancer with a world-class ballet company, widely expected to be the troupe’s youngest prima—until COVID shut down the theaters and left her with an incurable, chronic illness. Five years later, she’s living in California as a well-known Pilates instructor to the stars, but she can never shake the feeling she was robbed of her future.
When Katrina is pulled onstage at a concert by the Korean boy band, Helios, her condition flares and triggers an unexpected collapse…leading to an unlikely friendship with one of the members. American-born Simon is at the crossroads of his own career as he ages out of his K-pop idol persona, and Katrina is the one outsider who truly understands how much he sacrificed to build a career overseas…and what it would mean to give it up.
As Katrina and Simon sort through their complex feelings about their careers—and each other—it’s clear that the past doesn’t loosen its grip easily. After all, the price they paid for success doesn’t disappear with the dream…nor do the secrets they buried along the way.
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