Sharp Edges

After years of military service, twenty-four-year-old Natalia De La Vega is finally choosing a life for herself.

Leaving behind a complicated family history and a father only recently recovering from addiction, Natalia moves across the country to attend a prestigious university in Vermont determined to build the future she fought so hard for.
Focused, disciplined, and emotionally guarded, she has no interest in distractions-especially not the kind that come with charm, money, and an ego.

Then she meets Dimitri Bellini.

Rich, sarcastic, frustratingly observant, and impossible to ignore, Dimitri is used to people falling into step with him.
Confident without trying and always two steps ahead in conversation, he hides loneliness behind effortless charisma and carefully controlled detachment.

Their first meeting is an argument.

Their second is worse.

Natalia thinks he's arrogant, inconsiderate, and entirely too used to getting his way.
Demitri thinks she's stubborn, impossible to read, and the first person in a long time who doesn't seem affected by his attention.

Unfortunately for both of them, the attraction is immediate.

What begins as sharp banter, reluctant tension, and constant misunderstandings slowly turns into something far more dangerous:
Understanding.
Because beneath Natalia's composure is a woman learning that independence and vulnerability are not the same thing, and beneath Demitri's charm is someone desperate to be wanted for more than his name.

Between late-night conversations, unresolved tension, emotional walls, and the terrifying intimacy of being truly seen, Natalia and Demitri find themselves caught between who they've had to become to survive-and who they might become together.