When Nerisa Smith lands an internship at Vance Enterprises, she expects long hours and coffee runs — not the magnetic, guarded man who runs it. Nathan Vance doesn't do soft. He doesn't do close. Behind his empire is a past he's spent years burying, and the last thing he needs is an intern who sees straight through him. But the more Nerisa refuses to back down, the more his walls start to crack. Some lines aren't meant to be crossed. They're going to cross them anyway.

The Farm Boy Who Saw MeNerisa has spent most of her life trying not to be seen.Growing up, she was constantly reminded that she was too skinny, too quiet, too different. The comments, the laughter, and the cruel jokes slowly turned the girl who once loved dancing into someone who hides behind oversized clothes and avoids mirrors. She has learned to stay silent because speaking up only seems to give people another reason to judge her.When Nerisa is sent to stay with her family in the countryside, she expects nothing more than a few miserable weeks away from everything she knows.Then she meets Gabriel.Six-foot-five, irritatingly handsome, and impossible to ignore, Gabriel is a farm boy who seems to make it his personal mission to get on Nerisa's nerves. He talks too much, teases her whenever he gets the chance, and somehow always appears when she wants to be left alone.Nerisa can't stand him.Or at least, that's what she keeps telling herself.Because beneath Gabriel's teasing is something she isn't used to receiving—someone who actually pays attention.He notices when she goes quiet.He notices when she stops dancing.He notices the way she hides her body whenever someone looks her way.And slowly, without even realizing it, Nerisa begins to feel like she can breathe around him.For the first time in years, she starts drawing again. She dances when she thinks nobody is watching. She laughs without immediately regretting it. And maybe, just maybe, she begins to wonder if everything she has believed about herself is wrong.But Gabriel has a secret.A secret connected to Nerisa's family.A secret he knew before they ever met.Just when Nerisa begins to believe that Gabriel is the one person she can trust, she discovers that their meeting might not have been an accident at all.Because Gabriel didn't just happen to find her.He was looking for her.