Noah Walker has a habit. He falls for other girls, gives them everything, and when it falls apart… he comes back to Y/N. Every time. She tells herself this time will be different. That maybe he’s finally realized who was there all along. But as the cycle repeats, Y/N begins to wonder if she’s the one he’s meant to end up with—or just the place he goes when everyone else leaves. Because Noah has never promised forever. He’s never even promised tomorrow. He just keeps showing up with the same smile, the same excuses, and the same ability to make Y/N forget why she swore she was done. Everyone tells her to walk away. The only problem? It’s hard to stop betting on someone who makes losing feel so much like hope. but
Y/N thought she had buried her past the day Jasper Cross left. He was the boy she almost had—her first love, her almost everything—until fame pulled him out of their small town and into a world she could no longer follow. He didn’t stay long enough to say goodbye properly, and she didn’t wait long enough to stay broken. She rebuilt her life without him. Years later, she is divorced, raising her son Miles alone, and finally living in a quiet kind of stability she never thought she’d find. Jasper Cross has become a global music star—famous, untouchable, and completely out of reach. Until the day he comes back. A chance street encounter in their hometown forces everything they tried to forget into the same moment again. Because Jasper doesn’t just see Y/N—he sees Miles. And Miles looks exactly like him. Now, with the past standing directly in front of them, nothing stays buried. Not the love. Not the regret. Not the truth of what was left behind. And Jasper Cross is forced to realize that fame gave him everything—except the life he actually wanted.
At a party where nothing is supposed to matter, one mistake changes everything. Y/N never meant for anything to happen—especially not with Griffin Hale, the one person she definitely shouldn’t want. But one moment, one choice, and suddenly everything she thought she had figured out starts to blur. Because Griffin isn’t just her almost. He’s Madeline Brooks’ boyfriend. And Y/N has Tate Calloway—who would never forgive what he doesn’t know. Now it’s not just about what happened at the party. It’s about what happens after. When guilt turns into tension, tension turns into silence, and silence turns into the kind of feelings nobody is ready to name. And the worst part? They all felt it.
Y/N has spent her entire life doing everything right. As the pastor’s daughter, she knows how to smile when she’s overwhelmed, stay quiet when she’s angry, and pray when she doesn’t have answers. She’s learned that love should be patient, clean, and carefully chosen. Then Nate Holloway walks in and ruins the balance she’s spent years building. He’s loud where she’s quiet, reckless where she’s careful, and everything she was raised to stay away from. He doesn’t follow rules, doesn’t ask for permission, and doesn’t seem afraid of anything—including her world. They shouldn’t work. They shouldn’t even cross paths. But they do. And the more Y/N tries to push her feelings down and pray them away, the harder it becomes to ignore the truth: some people don’t come into your life to make it easier to be good… some come to make you question everything you were taught to believe.
When Julian Cross vanished at the height of his career, the world wanted answers. Fans searched. Reporters speculated. Conspiracy theories spread. No one ever found him. Years later, Y/N isn’t looking for the boy who left her behind—until she walks into a quiet little bookstore and finds him shelving novels under a name no one recognizes. The world spent years searching for a celebrity. She accidentally found the man. Now, faced with the love they never truly let go of, Julian must decide whether disappearing was the best thing he ever did… or the biggest mistake of his life.