New novel, "Now, why would I like her"
Story:
Liam's life is built on exhaustion.
Final-year university mornings blur into long nights at work, leaving him trapped in a routine that pays the bills but drains the color from everything else. He's responsible, quiet, always doing what he's supposed to do. Too busy surviving to ask himself if this is all life has to offer.
Then Lisa appears-and nothing feels safe anymore.
She's vibrant, playful, intoxicating in a way that doesn't ask for permission. Her laughter feels reckless, her confidence dangerous. She flirts like a game, disappears like a warning, and never lets him get too close without reminding him she doesn't believe in relationships. Desire is allowed. Attachment is not.
Liam wants more. He wants something real.
Lisa wants control.
What he doesn't know is that Lisa is carrying a secret heavy enough to ruin everything. A life she keeps hidden. A world she's learned to survive in by building walls and turning intimacy into a weapon. She sees Liam's innocence, his honesty, the way he looks at her like no one ever did, and it scares her more than loneliness ever did.
She tells herself she's protecting him.
That loving her would break him.
That he's too pure for her darkness.
But some connections don't care about rules. Or fear. Or carefully constructed lies.
As their attraction deepens, lines blur between temptation and truth, between wanting someone and destroying them. Every moment together feels stolen. Every step closer threatens to expose what Lisa is desperate to keep buried.
Because falling for Liam isn't just dangerous for her.
It might be the one thing she can't walk away from.
A dark, seductive slow-burn romance about secrets, desire, emotional damage, and the cost of loving someone when you're afraid of what they'll see if the lights come on.
