as we are

Literary Contemporary Fiction | Novel
Status: Revising completed first draft
Themes: friendship, ambition, obsession, loyalty, emotional
dependence, self-sabotage, chosen family
Setting: New York City

A story about friendship, ambition, and the dangerous intimacy of people who become too tangled to tell love from dependence.

Katy Morgan has writer’s block, a shaky relationship, and a new roommate she barely understands. Joseph, her reserved and work-obsessed boyfriend, is saving every dollar to open his dream bar, Brisa. Dax, her timid musician roommate, lives behind routines, silence, and the strange comfort of a stuffed whale.

Then there’s Jaidon.

Charismatic, chaotic, and impossible to look away from, Jaidon enters Katy’s life like a match struck in the dark. He is Joseph’s coworker, Brisa’s missing spark, and soon, the inspiration behind Jonah, the troubled character who brings Katy’s writing back to life.

But the closer Katy gets to Jaidon, the more blurred everything becomes: friendship and desire, ambition and loyalty, truth and fiction. As Brisa takes shape and Jonah consumes the page, Katy must confront the cost of turning real people into art.
As We Are is a tangled New York novel about longing, friendship, creative hunger, and the dangerous comfort of being seen.

For readers who like:
messy friendships, restaurant/bar settings, emotional triangles,
chosen family, creative burnout, and characters making very sincere disasters.