Beneath

BENEATH

She was supposed to be dead.

Two years ago, someone she trusted drove a blade into her and left her to bleed out in the dark. She survived but the girl she used to be didn't.

Now she's back. Quieter. Scarred. With gaps in her memory she can't explain and a body that flinches at things she doesn't remember. Her parents keep her sheltered, careful, close afraid that the world will break her again.

When they arrange her marriage to the son of a powerful family, they think they're giving her a future.

They don't know they've handed her back to her past.

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He knows exactly who she is.

He watched her die or thought he did. He grieved her, broke because of her, became someone colder and darker in the space she left behind. He's been running on grief and fury and something that looks dangerously like revenge ever since.

And now she's standing in front of him, wearing his ring, looking at him like he's a stranger.

Because to her he is.

She doesn't remember loving him.
She doesn't remember what happened that night.
She doesn't remember what she saw before the blade found her.

But her body does.

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As stolen glances turn into something neither of them can name, and fractured memories start bleeding back through the surface the shadows from their past begin closing in.

Because what happened that night didn't end with her.

And someone is running out of patience.

They'll have to uncover the truth buried beneath their perfect lives - before whoever silenced her once decides to finish the job.

Some love stories begin with a meeting.*
This one begins with a funeral that never happened.

Love doesn't forget.
It just waits.
And so do secrets.

🖤 Dark romance · Spicy tension · Slow burn · Arranged marriage · Memory loss · Psychological thriller · Revenge · Twists you won't see coming**

Mature themes - 18+
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