❝ You make this messed-up world look so much more beautiful. ❞ Gathering me in his arms, he pulled me close -- his lips seeking mine hungrily. ──────────────── The only thing Summer Hale has ever wanted was to live peacefully away from her secrets, away from the lies. When she pursues to study at Brickfields University after an unfortunate twist of fate, she believes she could live the life she has always dreamt of while finding the answers to a box of letters her mother left behind. Even if it's only for a short while. But after meeting mysterious and charming Gray Stanford, her life takes a thrilling and dangerous turn as dark pasts, disturbing secrets, and demons buried long ago resurface. Sometimes, it's the people who are closest to us that we should be careful of. What's college without a little crazy? ──────────────── 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗨𝗥𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗥𝗢𝗦𝗘 • Book 01 in the Ruthless Kingdom Series [[150,000 - 200,000]] ──────────────── Featured on Wattpad's Dangerous Love, General Fiction, Psychological Novel, and Romance profiles.

Suhaira has lived her whole life under comparisons - always falling short beside her cousin, Saad, the golden boy of the family. Reserved, accomplished, and endlessly admired, he embodies everything their grandmother wanted Suhaira to also be and everything she resents. After years of distance, fate pulls them back under the same roof, where every stolen glance and accidental encounter reignites the tension she thought she'd buried. To Suhaira, Saad is still the untouchable, indifferent figure who once made her feel small. To Saad, she's still the one person who unsettles the calm he works so hard to maintain. But behind his composed silence hides a vulnerability he cannot voice and beneath her defiance lingers a heart that refuses to stay guarded. Between biting banter, protective gestures he'll never admit to, and the quiet pull neither dares acknowledge, their strained bond begins to shift. What happens when the weight of unspoken emotions becomes too heavy to ignore? In a world bound by family, tradition, and a secret threatening to spill , Suhaira and Saad must decide whether their tainted ties will break them apart or tie them together forever.