"Some wounds don't heal alone. Sometimes, it takes the one who broke you to help piece you back together-if they're willing to bleed with you." I've been in love with Enzo De Luca since the moment he told me he was unable to feel the same. Cold, untouchable, and wrapped in the armor of his paranoia, he was everything I knew I shouldn't want-but did anyway. So when his engagement made headlines, followed by a picture-perfect wedding that shattered something fragile inside me, I knew it was time to let him go. Or at least pretend to. Because moving on from Enzo was never going to be easy-especially when the marriage was nothing more than a lie dressed in diamonds and designer vows. Then I was taken. Three days. Three days of hell. Three days of bruises, of fear, of being broken piece by piece. And in the silence, in the pain, in the darkness-I only prayed for one person. The man who'd already broken my heart. My savior. My hero. My undoing. But when Enzo tears down the walls to find me, everything changes. Because the rescue was just the beginning. Now, as I try to stitch myself back together, he's the only one who makes the pain bearable. The only one who sees past the surface and touches the parts of me I thought were too damaged to love. But love has never been simple for us. And as the buried pieces of my past rise to the surface, I wonder if the truth will make him stay-or finally push him away for good.

"We never asked for this. Our lives were written by others, our hearts shackled to a contract neither of us wanted. But somewhere between the lies we told ourselves, we found something we never expected to feel-something dangerous, the truth ." Love was a luxury I never sought, never allowed myself to want. I built walls so high, pushing people away to keep them safe, only letting a few in for fleeting moments of pleasure. But when her parents demand an arranged marriage to unite our families, my father has no choice but to agree. Defy them, and we risk everything. I knew her already-knew the way the sun made her skin glow, the way her curly brown hair danced with every step she took. But did I like her? That was a whole different question. Our families' hatred ran deep, centuries of bloodshed and betrayal fueling the fire that had burned between us for as long as I could remember. The only reason I even tolerated her was because of her brother-my best friend. The one person I thought I could trust... until I learned I was never supposed to be his ally at all. Now, fate has forced us into a marriage neither of us wanted. It feels like a foreign limb, an unwanted tumor growing at my side, suffocating every ounce of freedom I had. The question is-can we both survive this? Or will one of us end up broken, shattered by the weight of what we never asked for? But somewhere along the way, the impossible happened: I fell for her. Completely. Undoubtedly. And now, I don't know if we'll make it out alive... or if we'll destroy each other in the process.

"Sometimes it's better to heal apart, than break together ." Jude Hawthorne has always struggled with love. Growing up with parents who were addicts, he never experienced affection and was cut off from his extended family. When his father dies of an overdose and his mother is deemed unfit to care for him, Jude is sent to live with his uncle, aunt, and young cousin, Celeste. Thrown into a new home, school, and environment, Jude battles the same cravings that consumed his parents. Amidst this chaos, he meets Lila Bennett through a school project, and everything he believes about himself begins to change. Lila Bennett loves deeply, giving to others what she never received from her emotionally distant parents. When she's paired with Jude, she's determined to break through his guarded exterior. As they grow closer, Lila opens her heart, only to learn that Jude is leaving for college in Los Angeles. She doesn't realize the truth-he's being sent to rehab after his addiction nearly costs him everything. Five years later, Jude returns with a plan to win Lila back. But her modeling agency complicates things with an unexpected obstacle: a dating contract.