Before We Became Strangers

Blake Devereaux thought she was done with Jack Whitaker.

Done with the history, the expectations, the version of herself that existed when he was still part of her life.

She was wrong.

Now living in the same city, pulled together by mutual friends and a wedding they can't avoid, Blake and Jack are forced back into each other's world. What starts as polite distance quickly turns into something sharper, old wounds resurfacing, old habits returning, and a connection neither of them fully understands anymore.

But Jack isn't the boy she grew up with. He's built himself into something else-something controlled, calculated, and dangerously good at pretending.

And Blake?

She's the only one who refuses to believe it.