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Zara Patel has built her Hollywood career on one thing: control.
As one of the industry's most sought-after location scouts, she knows how to calculate risks, solve impossible logistics, and make sure nothing goes wrong. Landing the location for a $200 million fantasy epic could finally give her the freedom to leave the studio system and build an agency of her own.
Then she sees him.
Declan O'Connor.
Brilliant. Reckless. Infuriating.
And the man who walked away from her five years ago.
Now they're in Patagonia competing for the same career-defining assignment. With the studio refusing to choose between them, Zara and Declan are forced into a winner-takes-all Scout-Off and into the wilderness together.
But Patagonia doesn't care about Hollywood deadlines.
A catastrophic vehicle breakdown leaves them stranded. A brutal storm drives them into an abandoned mountain hut. Then a sudden flash flood destroys their route back, forcing them deeper into the mountains and toward the Southern Patagonian Ice Field.
With every dangerous mile, Zara is forced to confront the man she thought she knew.
Because Declan isn't the selfish coward she remembers.
He's the man who catches her when she falls.
The man who risks himself to keep her alive.
And the man who still looks at her like five years haven't changed a thing.
When a devastating whiteout traps them inside a breathtaking blue glacial cave, the distance between them finally becomes impossible to maintain. Old wounds reopen. Long-buried truths surface. And the love they never stopped feeling becomes harder to deny.
Zara thought surviving Patagonia would be the hardest thing she ever had to do.
She was wrong.
Trusting Declan with her heart might be far more dangerous.
Because sometimes the person who broke your heart is the only person who can help you put it back together.
Directing the Ex is a high-stakes second-chance romance filled with forced proximity, rivals-to-lovers tension, wilderness adventure, professional chemistry, and a love that refuses to stay buried.
