The Running Curse: A Novel of Second Chances, One Mile at a Time
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Ethan Cross has spent his whole life avoiding anything that made him sweat, sore, or slightly less comfortable — until the morning he turns twenty-five and wakes up looking thirty. By the next morning, he looks older still. The curse is simple and merciless: one day, one year, forever — unless he runs a mile, or fights for an hour, to buy the day back.
He didn't ask for this. But fifteen years ago, at a marathon he barely remembers, six-year-old Ethan laughed while a man died in front of him — and the runner's mother never forgot.
Running keeps him alive. Mia, a trainer at the gym he starts haunting, gives him a reason to want to be. But Mia is the curse-caster's niece, raised by the very woman who marked him — and the truth Ethan's been outrunning for fifteen years is about to catch up to both of them at once.
The Running Curse is a novel about the years we waste pretending we have unlimited ones — and what it costs, and what it's worth, to finally start running toward a life instead of away from one.
For readers of The Midnight Library, The Seven Year Slip, and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue — a high-concept curse, an earned romance, and a reckoning that doesn't let anyone off easy.
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About the author
romi writes stories about the small daily choices that quietly decide the shape of a life — the mile you almost skip, the truth you almost don't tell, the person you almost don't call back. The Running Curse, romi's debut novel, blends contemporary fantasy with a grounded, earned love story about what it costs to keep neglecting the one body and one life you actually have. When not writing, romi can usually be found exactly where this book's characters spend most of their time: on an ordinary street, in the middle of an ordinary run, thinking about something else entirely.
