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After leaving Los Angeles for Paris to pursue her career as a professional ballerina, 22-year-old Ella McKenzie Gross believes she has finally found the life she’s always worked for. But Ella has a secret most people at the ballet company don’t know. Before ballet, her German father taught her hip-hop, street dance, Latin dance, and freestyle. She hasn’t seriously danced those styles since she was ten, yet the rhythm never truly left her. Everything changes when Ella is paired with Adrian Moreau, a 27-year-old Parisian dancer and choreographer whose world revolves around street dance, hip-hop, contemporary, and Latin choreography. He’s everything Ella isn’t: rebellious, instinctive, and completely uninterested in following rules. When their worlds collide for an ambitious dance production combining ballet with street dance, the two are forced to become partners. Then a mysterious guest instructor arrives at their studio. Nobody knows who he is. Except Ella. It’s her father, the famous dancer who taught her everything she knows about street dance twelve years ago. And he hasn’t come to Paris just to teach a class. He wants to dance with his daughter again. As Ella steps onto the floor and performs their impossibly difficult childhood routine with him after twelve years apart, everyone finally sees the dancer hiding beneath the ballerina. And Adrian sees her differently too. Between intense rehearsals, unexpected family moments, rivalries, performances, and a chemistry neither of them can choreograph away, Ella must learn that she doesn’t have to choose between the ballerina she became and the dancer she used to be. Sometimes, finding yourself means remembering where you started. 💜🩰🕺