He's cold, quiet, and absolutely off-limits. So why can't she stop thinking about him? Sarah Reyes has two great loves: cooking, and her best friend Nina. After landing her dream pastry job in a bustling New York kitchen, she thinks she's got it all figured out-until Nina's older brother moves back to the city. James Benett is everything Sarah isn't: brooding, intense, and a Michelin-starred chef with a temper as sharp as his knives. He barely remembers her from their childhood summers, but now they're sharing a kitchen-and a whole lot of late-night tension. He's her best friend's brother. Her boss in the kitchen. And the last person she should want. But as their simmering attraction starts to boil over, Sarah's carefully planned life begins to unravel. In the city that never sleeps, can two opposites find the recipe for love?

He'd gone beyond his player ways for her. She'd grown beyond her traumatic past for him. Together, their love was beyond. Until one fatal accident. __________ When she loses the love of her life in a car crash, Althea has nothing left in California. So mourning and broken, she follows Asher's last wish: moving to New York and realizing her dream of becoming a fashion designer. But what happens when, three years later, she comes back home to get closure before getting promoted and married, and she finds her late boyfriend very much alive and paralyzed in a wheelchair? Asher would have never expected to see Althea again in his lifetime. He gave up on her, with his hope of walking again, long ago. And yet, here she is, the woman who's always had the power to shake his certainties, standing in front of him and bringing more than his heart out of numbness. With her, the half-man he's been for the past three years could be whole again and finally touch hope. If his pride doesn't stand in the way. If she lets her guard down again, because he isn't the only one who got wounded in this accident, and the ring on her finger isn't the only thing that has changed about the colorful girl he knew. Can their love go beyond lies, disability, ghosts of the past, new engagements, and all the opposite forces tearing them apart? __________ Featured in Wattpad Romance Head Over Heels' reading list in November 2023.