Zara does not believe in airport coincidences. She believes in systems, boundaries, and getting home without emotional complications. But when EK006 is cancelled at midnight, a stranger in a grey linen shirt guesses her coffee order, lands in the hotel room next door, and turns a miserable layover into the kind of day she will replay for months. Dubai was supposed to be the part in the middle. Instead, it becomes the beginning of a slow-burn romance that follows Zara all the way back to London - if she is brave enough to stop treating love like a missed connection.