NOT HER

Amaya Shroff was supposed to go back home with sunburnt skin, blurry Vegas photos, and stories she'd laugh about for years.
Instead-
she vanished.

One wrong night was all it took to drag a twenty-two-year-old engineering student into a world that doesn't forgive mistakes.
A world ruled by blood, silence... and men who don't hesitate.
Men like him.

Eugene Ricolo.
Thirty. Feared. Untouchable.
A man who doesn't look twice.
Until he does.
Because Amaya looks like HER.
The woman he buried.
Everyone expects him to break her
Or replace her.

But Amaya isn't a ghost.
She flinches at raised voices.
She still believes people can be good.
She doesn't belong in his world.
And that's exactly why she becomes its biggest threat.
Because Eugene doesn't want her dead.
Doesn't want her gone.
He wants her close.

Close enough to prove she means nothing.
Close enough to remember what he lost.
Close enough to forget... he was never supposed to feel again.

But the closer she gets-
the more dangerous it becomes.
Not just for her.

But also

For him.

───

A dark, slow-burn romance where obsession feels like survival,
and love is the most dangerous mistake of all.