Eleena has spent her entire life learning how to be the daughter her family expects her to be.In her strict, religious household, there are rules for everything—how she dresses, where she goes, who she spends time with, and eventually, who she is expected to love. She has never questioned those rules. Not until Maya.Maya is everything Eleena has been taught to be careful of: fearless, outspoken, impossible to ignore, and far too good at seeing through the walls Eleena has built around herself.What begins as a university friendship slowly becomes something neither of them can pretend away. And the line between friendship and love disappears before Eleena is ready to admit it ever existed.But loving Maya means risking more than heartbreak.It means risking her family’s trust, the life they’ve planned for her, and everything she has been taught about who she is supposed to be.With her family watching more closely and rumors beginning to spread on campus, Eleena is forced into a choice she never imagined she’d have to make:How much of herself is she willing to lose to keep the people she loves happy—and how much is she willing to sacrifice to keep the girl she loves?Because some love stories begin with a choice.Others begin with a secret.