BENZENE SERIES 1: Bought nights, Borrowed heart

Amara Celeste has learned to survive on shattered things - broken trust, sleepless nights, and a love she no longer believes exists. She moves through the world with painted lips and guarded eyes, working for a family.

Lucian Silas Reed has no patience for girls like her - girls who sell their nights and hide their hearts. Yet the more he tries to hate her, the more he's drawn to the quiet storms she carries, to the strength wrapped in softness she refuses to show.

Their worlds collide in sparks and sharp words -
a girl who swears love is a myth,
a man who swears he'll never fall.

But hate has a strange way of melting into longing.

And soon, Lucian finds himself buying every night she offers, not to possess her, but to be the only place she looks, the only name she whispers, the only heartbeat she chooses.

Slowly, dangerously, Amara begins to wonder if love isn't a lie after all...
if maybe, in the warmth of his hands and the safety of his gaze,

she has finally found something worth believing in.