A Forbidden RomanceSome loves aren't wrong. They're just early.Elara Whitmore has spent ten years building a life out of the pieces her father left behind when he vanished without a word. Guarded, sharp-tongued, and fiercely independent, she wants nothing more than to finish her final year at Kingsley University, publish her first novel, and leave the past exactly where it buried itself.Then she walks eight minutes late into Advanced Comparative Literature — and Professor Julian Ashford, the most disciplined, most untouchable academic on campus, doesn't punish her. He looks at her name on the roll sheet like it means something. Like he's been waiting for it.What begins as a question — is your mother's name Margaret? — unravels into something neither of them can stop. In empty lecture halls and after-hours office visits, in the careful spaces between what's said and what isn't, Elara and Julian discover a connection that terrifies them both: not just the sixteen years between them, or the line no professor is allowed to cross, but a truth buried in both their families that neither one is ready to face.Julian has spent a decade rebuilding a career a long-ago scandal nearly destroyed — a scandal tangled, somehow, with Elara's own vanished father. To want her is to risk everything he's fought to become. To keep his silence is to betray the one thing he still believes in.They do everything right. They keep their distance. They follow the rules.It doesn't matter.Some connections don't wait for permission — they only wait for the moment it's finally, painfully, allowed.Everything We Weren't Allowed to Be is a slow-burn academic romance about the space between duty and desire, the cost of the truths we inherit, and the kind of love that has to be earned twice — once in silence, and once in the open.

THE BILLIONAIRE'S FORGOTTEN WIFEShe woke up married to a stranger. The only thing more dangerous than not remembering him... is remembering everything.Elena Voss opens her eyes after three weeks in a coma to find a wedding ring on her finger, a scar she doesn't recognize, and a man standing at the foot of her bed claiming to be her husband. Damian Cross — billionaire CEO, ice-cold in every headline ever written about him — says they've been married for months. Says he loves her. Says they'll figure this out together.Elena doesn't remember any of it. Not the wedding. Not the man. Not the two months of her life that vanished the moment a truck ran a red light on Fifty-Third and Lex.What she does remember is this: trust is expensive, and she's never been able to afford it.As fragments of her missing months start clawing their way back — a stranger's warning slipped into her palm, a name that makes Damian's jaw tighten, a folder of numbers that don't add up — Elena begins to suspect the accident that stole her memory wasn't an accident at all. Someone wanted her to forget. And that someone is still close enough to make sure she never remembers.Damian knows more than he's telling her. He knows their marriage didn't start with love — it started with a contract, signed to save her father's dying company from a hostile takeover, back when Elena was still a stranger he was using to protect his own empire. He knows that somewhere between the paperwork and the penthouse, the lie became the realest thing he'd ever felt. And he knows that if Elena remembers the truth before she remembers loving him, he will lose her twice.But the past isn't the only thing hunting them. Someone inside Damian's own family has been rewriting the rules of the game long before Elena ever crashed into it — and they're not finished yet.Between boardroom betrayals, a love neither of them planned for, and a secret Elena is carrying that could change everything, one question burns brighter than all the rest:If you fell in love with a lie — is it still love once you learn the truth?A slow-burn, second-chance, secret-marriage romance full of simmering tension, corporate intrigue, and a mystery that refuses to stay buried. Perfect for readers who can't resist a billionaire with a wall around his heart, a heroine who refuses to be handled, and a plot twist they'll swear they should have seen coming.She lost her memory. He lost his nerve. And the truth is about to cost them both everything.