In her final year of law school, Zane Lein Alcantara is chosen. Chosen to be ranked. Chosen to be tested. Chosen to be watched. When Atty. Aurelia Charlotte Sinclair, a brilliant and merciless Criminal Law professor, introduces a ranking system that determines who survives her class, five students rise to the top-and are granted access to real criminal cases the rest of the class will never see. But the deeper Zane goes, the more she realizes the law is not being taught. It is being enforced. Case files don't align. Witnesses change their stories. And Aurelia seems to know what Zane will notice before she does. Her attention is controlled, deliberate-and impossible to escape. As loyalty fractures and truths surface, Zane must decide whether she is being trained for justice... or prepared for something far more dangerous. Because in Aurelia Sinclair's world, the law doesn't forgive. It executes.

Selene Suarez was once the art world's rising star-brilliant, celebrated, unstoppable. Then came the scandal, the arrest, and a prison sentence for a crime she didn't commit. Now, she's free but hollow, hiding from a world that watched her fall and moved on without her. She doesn't paint. She doesn't trust. And she definitely doesn't let people in. Then Haven Mondragón shows up-relentlessly cheerful, wildly persistent, and completely unaware of the walls Selene has spent years building. She's supposed to be straight. She's supposed to be just another visitor who leaves. But she keeps coming back. Haven is everything Selene isn't: open, soft, and full of reckless belief in second chances. And the more Selene resists, the more their connection starts to feel like something real. Selene doesn't want to feel anything. Haven doesn't know how to stop. But when boundaries blur and truths unravel, they're both forced to face the one question that could change everything: What if the person you're running from is the one who makes you feel whole again?