Twenty-five-year-old Anastasia Greene runs away with her six-year-old son, from her cheating husband. Hustling, trying to forget her horrible past, she starts anew at the heart of Brooklyn, New York, with her past buried underneath. With her luck, she meets her celebrity crush, a young, promising model and actor, in the restaurant she works at as a cook. A chain of incidents draws her into him, more than usual.
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Ana, scarred by a painful separation with her high school sweetheart and later-husband Ethan, has built emotional walls, vowing never to let anyone hurt her again. After their heartbreaking split, she focuses on rebuilding her life with her son, convinced love is no longer for her.
Meeting her celebrity crush, Oscar-winning actor Alexander Finnegan Robertson, only complicates things. Alex, unlike the sweet and gentleman she imagined, is arrogant, rough, and self-centered. He has a string of casual flings - a stark contrast to Ethan Johnson who seems to be a polished businessman and engineer, cold on the surface, yet intelligent beyond measures, multi-talented, heir to billions worth of fortune and a leading tech company, loved by opportunistic women and loathed by fellow businessmen.
Initially, Ana dismisses Alex, but sparks begin to fly as Alex starts to break through her defenses, acknowledging her painful past. And just as Ana begins to open up to Alex, Ethan reappears after three years, reigniting her old feelings. Now, Ana must choose between the man who once shattered her heart with countless lies or the complex new love that may offer her a second chance at happiness.
⚠️TRIGGER WARNING : VIOLENCE AND MATURE CONTENT⚠️
"There you go again. Letting your head get the better of you."
Becca's eyes shot to his.
"You can't hold back like that, not if you want it to feel real."
Her cheeks felt like they were on fire. Yes, she'd stopped. She knew. But he spoke like it was so simple, like she was just some amateur afraid of the stage. He had no clue what this felt like, that it wasn't the scene that made her chest tight. It was looking at him.
She put a full foot of distance between them. "I know how to act, Boris!"
He stood there, unmoved. "Then show me."
Her nails dug into her palms. No. She wasn't going to let him break her. She pulled her shoulders back, took a breath, and planted her feet.
"Fine," she bit out. "This time...I'll finish it."
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When Becca Morgan walked through the doors of her old high school, she never expected to get pulled back into the world of theater. She also didn't expect Boris an intense and incredibly talented 18-year-old senior who gets under her skin. A single rehearsal is all it takes for things to get complicated, blurring the lines between the roles they're playing and the people they're becoming.
🎭 𝕀𝕤 𝕚𝕥 𝕙𝕚𝕞 𝕀'𝕞 𝕕𝕣𝕒𝕨𝕟 𝕥𝕠...𝕠𝕣 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕘𝕚𝕣𝕝 𝕀 𝕦𝕤𝕖𝕕 𝕥𝕠 𝕓𝕖, 𝕞𝕚𝕣𝕣𝕠𝕣𝕖𝕕 𝕚𝕟 𝕙𝕚𝕞?
It goes much deeper than just desire. At its heart, the story is about the ache of getting older, wondering where the time went. It's about the messy, complicated search to find yourself again.
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