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FULL STORY AVAILABLE ❤️ 🔥 Aliana Valencourt, the youngest Valencourt sister & heiress has mastered the art of being unseen.
Quiet, observant, and intensely independent, she moves through the world without needing attention to feel powerful. After leaving behind a promising dance future-and the betrayal that shattered her trust-Aliana learned to keep her fire hidden. Desire is a flame she smothers before anyone can get close enough to burn her.
Atticus Everheart is the opposite.
Charming, magnetic, impossible to ignore, he's spent most of his life being watched, Twin to his brother Soren, hotel heir and archetic. The tabloids adore twisting him into a playboy caricature; society paints him as the reckless Everheart brother. On the outside, he seems untouchable. But inside, the constant misjudgment cuts deeper than he lets anyone see.
And then there's Aliana-the only person who looked at him and didn't see a headline.
From the moment they met, she intrigued him. Her silence. Her depth. Her refusal to be impressed by his charm. She became the one person he wanted to be real for... even if he never admitted it out loud.
Now, fate pushes them back into each other's orbit, and Atticus makes a quiet decision:
he will earn her trust, no matter how many walls she's built.
But loving someone like Aliana isn't a battle fought between them-it's a battle fought within them.
For her, the internal argument is whether she can risk her heart again.
For him, it's whether he can be vulnerable enough to show her.
Book 2 in Love Is A Debate