The Architecture of Want

A Body-Positive Love Story Between an Architect and a Sculptor Who Build Something Neither Can Design Alone

De: Wren Sue Maxwell

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Rowan Chase has spent her life building beauty for everyone else. As a brilliant architect, she creates cathedrals of glass and steel that dazzle the world—but no one has ever stayed long enough to see the woman behind the designs. When she’s paired with celebrated sculptor Julian Marks on a landmark cultural arts center, she expects friction. She doesn’t expect him to see her—the way she fills space, the way she holds it.

Julian is everything Rowan distrusts: impulsive, intuitive, devastatingly sincere. His art is chaos made physical, while hers is order rendered in light. Their collaboration begins as competition, each trying to outbuild the other. But as their creative battle deepens, admiration turns into tension, and tension turns into something neither of them can blueprint.

What starts in the echoing halls of unfinished architecture becomes an intimacy forged through shared ambition and quiet vulnerability. Julian’s sculptures reflect her more honestly than any mirror ever could, while Rowan’s designs reveal his faith in structure and redemption. Together, they learn that love—like art—isn’t about perfection. It’s about what still stands when everything cracks.

When betrayal threatens to destroy their project and their fragile trust, Rowan must decide if she can risk being seen again. And Julian must prove that creation and consent can coexist—that admiration doesn’t require ownership.

Set against the luminous world of modern architecture, The Architecture of Want is a slow-burn, plus-sized contemporary romance about the courage to take up space, the ache of creative connection, and the beauty of being wanted exactly as you are. Warm, self-aware, and emotionally intelligent, it’s a story of two flawed visionaries who build something holy between them—one careful line, one open touch, one act of trust at a time.