Lena Rivera never planned to come back to her hometown. But when life in the city unravels, she returns to the one place that still feels familiar - and to the one person she swore she wouldn't fall for again.
Jace Carter has always been her comfort zone: loyal, easy to be around, and the only man she's ever shared something physical with that didn't require emotions or expectations. Their friends-with-benefits arrangement worked... until it didn't. When Jace introduces Lena to his friend Cameron - charming, stable, and genuinely interested in her - everything starts to shift.
As Lena begins building a relationship with Cameron, Jace realizes too late that what they had wasn't casual at all. He pulls away, but neither of them can stay away for long. Their connection reignites in secret, tangled in desire and denial, while Lena's relationship with Cameron deepens - until she's stuck between two men who both see different parts of her.
But this time, Lena isn't just choosing between lovers.
She's choosing who she wants to be.
After Langelihle's father passed, they were kicked out of their family house and forced to relocate. Langelihle's mother remarried a man who abused her and Langelihle and later forced Langelihle to marry Nkosiyabo, a ruthless man.