Liana Brooks has spent years learning how to survive behind a smile.At Ravencrest International University, everyone knows her as Campus Belle—beautiful, intelligent, confident, and seemingly untouchable. But behind the attention is a girl carrying a past she rarely talks about: the suspicious death of her parents, a complicated home life, and a letter from her mother warning her that not everything she has been told is true.Then she meets Ethan Cole.Quiet. Intelligent. Mysterious.He isn't interested in her popularity, and somehow, that makes him the one person she finds herself wanting to understand.What begins as an unlikely partnership slowly becomes friendship. Friendship becomes trust. And before either of them realizes it, their lives begin intertwining with those of Sienna and Adrian, creating a friendship neither of them expected to need.But everyone in this story is keeping something hidden.Liana is searching for answers about her parents.Ethan is hiding a truth of his own.And the closer they become, the harder it becomes to keep their secrets buried.Because sometimes, falling in love isn't about knowing someone completely.It's about discovering who they really are—and deciding whether the truth is worth staying for.Before We Knew Us is a story of love, friendship, secrets, family, betrayal, and the truths waiting beneath the lives we think we know.

Unfortunately, It’s YouLena Osei has one rule: never talk to the guy who almost hit her car in a grocery store parking lot. Jace Bennett has one rule: never let the girl who stole his parking spot get the last word. Neither rule survives past Monday morning — when they discover they’re not just at the same school, but the same class. Same lab table. Same everything, apparently, for the rest of the year.What starts as a war of one-liners slowly turns into something neither of them saw coming. Their friend groups collide into one tight, chaotic circle of six — road trips, group chats named after inside jokes, secrets nobody else gets to hear. Jace falls first, quietly, and has to watch Lena catch up to what everyone around them can already see.High school. Slow burn. A friend group that becomes family. And two people who spent three weeks hating each other, only to find out that “unfortunately” might be the best thing that ever happened to them.