Penelopy

Sebastian Thorne has let Penelopy Carter stain his life once, and he promised never to do it again. He had built the past three years of his life around isolation-dark, quiet, and controlled. His world is carefully crafted, untouched, until Poppy Carter shatters the silence.

She's everything he despises: loud, vibrant, full of life. Yet, he can't escape her. Forced to share the property with her, he tries everything to not let Poppy's routine interfere with his. Yet, her familiar laughter seeps through the walls, her voice a whisper that haunts him, the scent of baked goods lingering in the air.

At first, it irks him. The change in routine, the dent in the silence. His irritation grows, inadvertently twisting into something darker-an obsession he can't control. An obsession that never left him. Every glimpse of her, every sound, pulls him deeper into a secret he's terrified to face.

He tries to hide it, to push her away with cruelty and distance. But the walls between them, though thick and separating their worlds, can't keep the pull of their fates apart.

The thin barrier shrinks, as fate controls their lives. When the barrier finally breaks, everything changes.

What started as a quiet obsession, twists and turns into something much more dangerous. Something inescapable.