By Design and Devotion

A cozy, faith-grounded friends-first romance set in Austin. Book 2 of The Morning Set Series by Gabriella Quist.

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They paused the plan. Then they chose each other, on purpose.

Devon Mehta and Ayana Nayir have orbited each other since childhood, inside a match their families set in motion before either of them was old enough to understand it. Fourteen months into an arranged engagement neither of them chose, and one month before the wedding, they do the unthinkable. They pause it.

What follows is a year of intentional distance and accidental closeness: separate callings, late-night honesty, a cooking-night kiss neither of them planned, and a circle of friends who refuse to let them hide from the only question that matters. What do they actually want?

As Devon steps into work that is truly his and Ayana claims a career, and a wedding, on her own terms, family pressure mounts from every side. To marry at all, they will have to do it for the first time as a choice, not a script.

By Design and Devotion is a cozy, faith-grounded story about shedding inherited expectations and building a love that requires no performance.