Introductions × Prologue
After the sudden passing of their grandmother, three siblings Vester, Maria, and Paulo return to their family's ancestral home in a quiet seaside town. While sorting through old letters, family heirlooms, and dusty photographs, they uncover a hidden chapter of their family's history a long-lost older brother named Stell, who disappeared as a teenager decades ago.
But that's not all-they soon discover that Stell had a daughter no one knew about. And not just that... their cousins, who had gone no-contact years ago under mysterious circumstances, also have daughters-girls connected by secrets, shadows, and shared blood.
These girls Alaina, Maria and Jhana each raised in very different circumstances, suddenly find themselves drawn into the heart of this family mystery. Some are skeptical, others eager to connect. Romance brews between some of the siblings and the cousins' girls, but long-held resentments, betrayals, and inherited trauma threaten to tear them all apart.
Main Characters:
Vester (28): The responsible older sibling, protective, level-headed. Starts falling for Jhana, the fiery daughter of a cousin who hated their family.
Maria (25): Intuitive and emotionally intelligent. Develops a deep, complicated bond with Althea, Stell's daughter, who harbors resentment for being hidden.
Paulo (22): Playful, sarcastic, but deeply loyal. Struggles with growing feelings for Alaina, who may be hiding something big about their shared past.
Alaina (24): Stell's daughter. Sharp, independent, and distrustful. She wants answers more than she wants family-but she might find both.
Althea (23): One of the cousin's girls. Mysterious, soft-spoken, but observant. She holds the key to a major family secret.
Jhana (26): Tough, cynical, with a dark sense of humor. Hides her pain behind sarcasm. She doesn't trust the family-but she can't stay away.
Stell might still be alive.
One of the cousins' girls isn't who she says she is.