Maria's life takes a haunting turn when she meets Collins, a young man whose face has appeared countless times in her dreams. The dreams always end the same way-Collins in danger, pleading for help, and Maria frozen in fear. When she finally meets him in reality, he seems untroubled. But her dreams echo,her hesitation costs him his life. Or so she believes.
Two weeks later, while working at her family's restaurant with her mother, Maria and step sibling,Gwen,she is stunned to see Collins walk in-alive, smiling, and seemingly content. He's married now, with a wife , living the life of a man untouched by tragedy. Yet the dreams return, more vivid and disturbing than ever, replaying the same scenes of danger and death. Each dream feels like a warning.
Unable to ignore the visions, Maria seeks to reconnect with Collins, convinced that his life is still in peril. Her obsession strains her relationship with her boyfriend, Morgan, whose patience wears thin as Maria's fixation deepens. The more she tries to protect Collins, the more her own world unravels-her love life collapses, her sanity frays, and her grip on reality weakens.
But Collins's life only seems to flourish. His marriage grows stronger, his happiness more radiant. The contrast torments Maria, until she begins to suspect that the danger she senses is not physical but spiritual-something tied to the woman he loves. As her psychological struggles intensify, Maria must confront a terrifying question: are her visions a cry from fate, or the delusions of a mind unraveling?
When truth and illusion blur, Maria faces an impossible choice-save the man who may not need saving, or lose herself completely to the echoes of a dream that refuses to die.
Henley agrees to pretend to date millionaire Bennett Calloway for a fee, falling in love as she wonders - how is he involved in her brother's false conviction?
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Henley Linden's brother is in jail for a crime he didn't commit, and she'll take any job to raise the money needed to free him. Soon, she's agreed to pretend to date millionaire Bennett Calloway for ten thousand dollars, so his mother will ease up the pressure on him to find a wife. But once Henley is enmeshed in Bennett's world, he falls for her, and she starts to have feelings for him as well. Despite her romance with Bennett, as she grows closer to the Calloways, Henley realizes they are somehow involved in her brother's conviction. Journeying deeper into a world of wealth and conspiracies, Henley is forced to rely on Bennett, though doing so could cost her everything.
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