The story starts out four years earlier and shows the developing love between college seniors Haydn Ross and Camila De Luca. Their love is infectious and instantaneous. He's slow to open up due to his past but the love they have for each other is unwavering. They both are passionate and want different things than what their families had envisioned for them. Haydn just had no idea what that vision truly had entailed until he was forced to give everything he ever wanted up including Camila. The story shifts to four years later when...Camila returns to a neighboring town with her boyfriend Josh...who she falls in love with over a summer at their lake house, and who she finds out is good friends with Haydn. Camila has no idea who Haydn really is now and what Josh does to protect him. Secrets, lies and pain surround them...will love be what gives the happy ending or will pain always be the inevitable.

Imagine you stumble on a zone forbidden by locals, said to have been cursed... and you find a prehistoric man in those waters, life changes in ways you can't explain...the sea is unrested, tides rise, secrets uncover but one thing is for sure...gods never die

Henley agrees to pretend to date millionaire Bennett Calloway for a fee, falling in love as she wonders - how is he involved in her brother's false conviction? ****** Henley Linden's brother is in jail for a crime he didn't commit, and she'll take any job to raise the money needed to free him. Soon, she's agreed to pretend to date millionaire Bennett Calloway for ten thousand dollars, so his mother will ease up the pressure on him to find a wife. But once Henley is enmeshed in Bennett's world, he falls for her, and she starts to have feelings for him as well. Despite her romance with Bennett, as she grows closer to the Calloways, Henley realizes they are somehow involved in her brother's conviction. Journeying deeper into a world of wealth and conspiracies, Henley is forced to rely on Bennett, though doing so could cost her everything. [[word count: 200,000-250,000 words]]