Close your eyes

Juliet Blanchett left Brightshore with no intention of ever coming back.

Not after the night she lost everything.

Not after Alexander Hawthorne.

He had been there since the beginning. The boy who grew up beside her in the shadows of wealth and expectation. The boy who knew her better than anyone. The boy who challenged her, infuriated her, understood her.

The boy who ended up hating her.

Their relationship was never simple. It was stolen glances and sharp words. Unspoken understanding and rivalry. A tension that neither of them could escape.

Until the summer they turned eighteen-when everything changed, and one mistake destroyed whatever they had been to each other.

Two years later, Juliet returns to Brightshore, pulled back into the life she tried so hard to leave behind. But time hasn't softened Alec Hawthorne. He's colder now. Harder. Untouchable. He looks at her like she's a stranger.

Like she's someone he refuses to forgive.

Yet the closer they are, the more the past refuses to stay buried. Because beneath the anger, beneath the silence, something still lingers. Something neither of them ever truly let go.

In a city filled with memories and secrets, Juliet must face the truth about the boy she once loved-

And the man who might break her all over again.