Love in Trauma

Olive Becker has spent years building a life she can be proud of-a successful career in real estate, a close-knit family, and a best friend who has been beside her since high school. Chance Kaneko is the person she trusts most. Calm, dependable, and fiercely protective, he has always been her safe place. Neither of them has ever admitted that their friendship has become something more.

Then, on an ordinary walk home, Olive is attacked by a stranger who knows Chance's family name. What first appears to be a random act of violence quickly reveals itself as something far more deliberate. As Olive struggles to recover, Chance is forced to confront secrets he has spent years trying to bury-secrets tied to his father, a dangerous former friend named Yong Morel, and a past that may have put everyone he loves in danger.

With the threat closing in, Olive and Chance can no longer hide behind friendship. But falling in love while fear, guilt, and betrayal surround them may prove just as dangerous as the enemy hunting them. Because Yong does not simply want revenge. He wants to destroy everything the Kaneko family loves.

And Olive is at the center of it all.