Aine grew up in a warm, simple world built around family and coffee. When her mother died, that world collapsed. A new home, a demanding stepmother, and a father she loved too much to blame gave her little room to grieve.
At Jade High she exists quietly, until Jokull, the school president and everyone’s dream, chooses her. For the first time in years something in her stirs back to life.
Then her father betrays the world’s most powerful mafia, and Aine pays the price. Taken as collateral, she endures pain that changes her in ways she cannot name. Inside that darkness she finds Ravi. Dangerous, complex, and far more entangled in her world than she knew.
When Jokull’s true colours surface she makes the only choice that feels honest.
She chooses Ravi.
Their love grows slowly and fiercely, until Jokull’s interference costs Aine her memories entirely. Ravi starts over with her, patient and determined, rebuilding what was lost. They survive it. They build a family. They breathe again.
Then a woman from Ravi’s past walks back in, and everything trembles.
Aine has lost and chosen and fought more than once. But will she fight again? Or will she finally let love stand on its own?
