#1---- Alara Gabriella Diaz is a second-year engineering student at Startion University, where her sharp tongue and cold heart hide a complexity few truly understand. She didn't expect to join the swim team, but a series of unexpected events - and a mother's request - pull her into a world of competition. There, she encounters Yvette Dhenice, the enigmatic sister of Matthew Case Hernandez, a man whose presence seems to haunt her more than she would like to admit. What should have been a simple chapter in her college life takes an unexpected twist when she crosses paths again with Case // a fleeting figure from her past. Their reunion feels anything but coincidental, as if something greater is at play, binding them together in ways Alara can't yet comprehend. As old feelings resurface and new things unfold, Alara is drawn into a tangled web of love, secrets, and lies, with the truth always just out of reach.