Darya has hated Aleksei Marchenko for six months.
He is always late. Always smiling like he knows something about you that you have not said out loud. Always looking at her like she is a puzzle he has already solved.
Then the sirens start. The lights go out. And they end up in a basement together with two candles and nowhere to go.
This is not a story about the war.
It is a story about what happens when you finally stop hiding.
A slow burn romance set in Kyiv during the war, While the City Sleeps explores the specific intimacy of two people who have run out of reasons to be careful.
