Strangers to lovers

New York chef Jilly Moore had a decade-long marriage, two sons, and a restaurant on the rise. Then she found out what her husband had been doing behind all of it. Now she's running the restaurant alone, co-parenting with the man who broke her, and swearing she'll never let her heart break twice. But between split weekends and baseball games and late-night recipes, someone new keeps showing up in the spaces her old life left empty, and Jilly has to decide whether love that ends is love that's over. She built a life around someone who shattered it. What scares her now isn't being alone. It's wanting to try again.

When a case of mistaken identity leads to an innocent girl being kidnapped by a gangster, will one man bent on revenge push them together or destroy them? ***** Hayden King and Violet Smith couldn't be more different. While he was a feared gangster, she was a simple college student, a delicate flower whose petals had been crushed by a stranger a long time ago. But what they didn't realize is that they had more in common than they initially thought. Their lives were interlinked in a complicated way because of some sick twist of fate. So how will the big revelation affect their life? Will he able to save Violet from the demon of her dreams? Let's find out. [[word count: 60,000-70,000 words]]