Falling for the Sun

Elara Quinn grew up knowing what it meant to be alone.

Her mother left when she was barely two months old, and whatever love her father once had vanished with her. The man who raised her was cruel, unpredictable, and cold, leaving Elara to survive in a house that never felt like home. With no family to turn to and no friends to lean on, she learned early how to disappear into herself.

Then the dreams started.

Warm, gentle dreams - like sunlight brushing against her skin, like someone watching over her in the dark when no one else ever had.

Apollo, the god of the sun, heard her long before he ever saw her. The quiet songs she sang to herself, the music she used to survive, reached Olympus... and him. Moved by her loneliness, Apollo began to watch her from afar, crossing a line the gods were never meant to cross.

Zeus noticed.

And he disapproved.

As punishment for caring too much, for being soft where gods were meant to be distant, Zeus stripped Apollo of his divinity and cast him down to Earth - human, powerless, and mortal.

Now the god who once watched over her is about to fall into her life.

And neither of them is ready for what loving each other will cost.