Isabel was just eighteen when she ran away from home. She moved to the other side of the world. She escaped from her country, her life, her family, she escaped from her every untold secret, and she escaped from love, above all from love. Now here she is, three years later, she has come back to her origins. She will have to overturn her life, on the fact that her father fell ill. To save his life, she will have to make a pact with Jack, a charming and handsome man, also extremely arrogant, and unable to love. But in this life you don't get to choose if you fall in love, and they will completely fall in love, a kind of love that's going to damage them, but they will fight for it and to make it grow.
As Claire aims to leave her oppressive stepfamily behind, she befriends Zion. Will he be her ticket to freedom or a distraction in achieving her dreams?
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Claire Olsen has had a crush on Zion Petrakis since the first time she laid eyes on him, but he never noticed, instead only having eyes on the school's it girl, Maddie Jennings. Knowing she couldn't compete with Maddie, Claire hid her feelings for Zion, satisfied with admiring him from afar. However, when a series of events led Claire closer to Zion, her feelings for him grew from infatuation to love. And despite fighting hard to keep her feelings contained by distancing herself from Zion, he was determined to show her that he's earned a spot in her life.
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