Layla is a college student, desperately in love with her friend Lucas. His rejection leads her to his best friend, Alex, whose comforting presence soon turns into a deep connection. But Layla doesn't realize she is in love with him, until it's too late.
Years after she loses Alex, a sudden, unexpected turn of events throws her into a situation where reality and fantasy collide, blurring the lines between truth and illusion, between right and wrong. Into a situation, where she questions everything she knows, everything she believes in, even her sanity.
Join Layla on an enchanting journey where fate twists and turns, and destiny calls. Welcome to a world where quantum physics meets medieval sorcery, heartbreak ignites magic, and fate grants second chances.
Welcome to a world where Good battles against Evil and the most powerful weapon is love.
"She focused on his strong hand wrapped around her arm. The contact was burning her skin. He emanated a heat that, despite everything, still felt affectionate, still filled with longing and desire every pore of her body. She was unable to fear him, to hate him, to lose faith in him. A notion shone in her mind. They were right.
The languishing poets and the lyrical songwriters. The passionate dreamers and the stubborn optimists. The amorous authors and the rom-com filmmakers. The yearning fools, the lovelorn teenagers, the outrageously naive, the hopelessly romantic. They were right all along.
True love never dies."
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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