FEVER/KARTEL

AMARA BENNETT HAD A PLAN.

Finish school. Make her own money. Make her parents proud. Build a life that belonged entirely to her.

Love wasn't part of it.

Especially not a man like Kairo.

He was everything she had been warned about the kind of boy whose name carried weight, whose presence demanded attention, and whose life came with secrets Amara knew better than to involve herself in.

Their first meeting wasn't romantic.

There were no butterflies.

No instant love.

Just a few words exchanged at the wrong place, at the wrong time.

But Kingston was a small world, and somehow, their paths kept crossing.

A message here.

A chance encounter there.

A look that lasted a little too long.

The more Amara tried to keep living her own life, the harder it became to ignore the strange pull between them.

But Kairo's world isn't as simple as it looks.

And Amara is about to learn that sometimes the people you try hardest to stay away from are the ones who leave the deepest mark.

He wasn't supposed to become part of her story.

She wasn't supposed to become his weakness.

But some feelings don't ask for permission.

They spread.

Slowly.

Dangerously.

Like a FEVER.