Every choice demands a sacrifice. When Detective Zachary Taylor's investigation collides with Fatima Wilson's dangerous past, a ruthless criminal empire force two strangers into the same deadly war. In a world where loyalty is bought with blood, they'll soon discover that love may be the greatest sacrifice of all.

Five years after their divorce, Fatima and Zac are successfully co parenting their four children while running the company they built together. But when Zac gets engaged, His fiancée struggles to accept how close he still is to Fatima. As tensions rise, old feelings begin to resurface, forcing them to question whether their love story ever truly ended.

yearn /yərn/ verb have an intense feeling of longing for something, typically something that one has lost or been separated from.

Zachary Taylor and Fatima Wilson were never supposed to be anything more than friends. Seven and a half years later, nobody believes them. Not when he calls her first after every game. Not when she shows up to every practice like she belongs there. Not when his daughter cries for her before anyone else. And definitely not when they argue like a married couple who forgot to sign the papers. They swear it's nothing. Just friendship. Just loyalty. Just life. But life has a funny way of looking like love when you stop paying attention. Especially when you've already been living like a family without realizing it. And when outside relationships, old history, and unexpected truths start to blur the lines... One question becomes impossible to ignore: If they're just friends... why does it feel like they've already been married this whole time?

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A mafia family takes on the city of Chicago, their power high and mighty everyone respects them. Two Brothers, taking on the legacy of their late father and running the streets but their like ghost, not to be seen. "The streets ain't made for everybody, that's why they made sidewalks." Their father told them. What happens when you risk your street lifestyle for love?

Her family sees embarrassment. Her lawyer sees entitlement. The public sees a headline. But underneath all of that, she is somebody who keeps making reckless choices because she is starving for love, attention, freedom, and somebody to choose her over the family name.

"You want me to gamble my heart on a spin?" he asked, a dry little laugh slipping under his breath. "No," she murmured, sliding off the stool and stepping closer to him. "I want you to stop pretending love could ever survive in a place you have to lie to keep it."

When best friends blur lines and become lovers.