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Built Between Us
"Some foundations are made of stone. Others are built by the people who refuse to let you fall."
When her father's affair and financial ruin destroy the Brooke family's fashion house, Arabelle Isolde Brooke is forced to leave London behind and return to her mother's quiet hometown in North Yorkshire. With nothing but painful memories and the dream of becoming a doctor, she hopes to disappear into a new school and start over.
Instead, she crosses paths with Lucien Blackwood.
The only legitimate heir to the Blackwood Group, Lucien is expected to inherit one of Britain's most powerful construction empires-a legacy responsible for building shopping centres, luxury hotels, hospitals, and iconic landmarks across the country. To everyone else, he has the perfect life. To him, it feels like a prison built long before he was born.
She carries the shame of a family that lost everything.
He carries the burden of a family that expects everything.
As their worlds collide, a quiet friendship begins to take shape-one built on understanding instead of judgment, honesty instead of appearances, and hope instead of fear.
But when old scandals resurface and the weight of family expectations threatens to pull them apart, Arabelle and Lucien must decide whether love is strong enough to withstand the foundations laid before they were ever born.
Because not every masterpiece is built from steel and stone.
Some are built between two hearts.