At Gate 12, a single hello sparks a clean, slow-burn romance-and a family secret that could rewrite everything. With her sister fighting for breath, Tamsin must choose truth, boundaries, and the man who never tries to control her.Tamsin thought the hardest part of her trip would be the flight. Then a message flashes across her screen, her sister's name appears in a hospital update, and the world she's built on careful calm starts to tilt. The airport becomes a holding space between two lives: the one she knows, and the one she's about to discover.At Gate 12, she meets Asher in the most ordinary way, with a small kindness and a simple hello. He isn't flashy, and he isn't pushy. He's steady in a way that feels unfamiliar, the kind of steady that doesn't ask her to perform or shrink. When Tamsin's family crisis pulls her back into a storm of old patterns, Asher doesn't try to rescue her. He simply stays close enough to remind her what respect feels like, and far enough to keep her freedom intact.As her sister Mira fights to recover, the family dynamics Tamsin has spent years managing finally crack open. A secret she never consented to carry rises to the surface, and the person she trusted most is forced to face what control has cost them all. Tamsin is left holding a question that hurts no matter how she answers it: how do you love people who keep rewriting your life for you.Hello At Gate 12 is a clean, slow-burn stranger romance about boundaries that don't apologize, truth that arrives like oxygen, and a love that grows not through pressure, but through patience. In the place where everything broke open, Tamsin learns she can choose what happens next, and she can say hello to the future as the person she truly is.