Never Us

Maya Kingston has one rule this year: don't mess up.

After a scandal nearly destroys her future, she transfers to Kimbell University determined to prove she's more than the reckless twin living in her brother's shadow. If she can raise her grades and keep her head down, her father might finally give her a place in the family empire.

There's just one problem.

Adam Lockhart.

Brilliant. Isolated. An outcast. He's the rough among the diamonds and they always remind him. When the university assigns him as her tutor, Adam makes one thing clear: he doesn't tutor Kingstons.

Maya quickly learns that at Kimbell, last names carry weight and some grudges run deeper than she ever imagined.

Forced into each other's orbit, Maya and Adam collide in a war of pride, secrets, and dangerous attraction. Because the more she tries to prove she's changed, the more she realises that the past isn't done with her. And Adam might be the one person who won't let her forget it.

He's broken in ways no one can see, and she's far too beautiful for him to scar

Main Prompt: Prompt 46: We love broken, beautiful people. And it doesn't get more obviously broken and more classically beautiful than you.

Other: Prompt 78: You begin to realise nothing is quite what it seems.

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