Some love stories end because people fall out of love.Ours ended because one of us loved too much.When sixteen year old Ava Carter meets the quiet, mysterious Noah Hayes, one stolen glance changes everything. What begins as an unlikely friendship slowly blossoms into a once in a lifetime love that feels impossible to break.For two unforgettable years, they build a future together one filled with dreams, promises, and forever.Then Noah walks away.No explanation.No goodbye worth believing.Only a shattered heart and a silence Ava can never escape.Years later, fate brings them back together, but Noah isn’t the boy she once knew. He’s colder, haunted by secrets he refuses to share, and surrounded by dangers Ava never imagined.As buried truths begin to surface, Ava realizes the breakup she spent years hating may have been the only thing that kept her alive.But some secrets demand a price.Some goodbyes are acts of love.And sometimes the greatest heartbreak is discovering that the person who broke you was also the one trying to save you.Can love survive the truth…Or were they always destined to become nothing more than Forever Was Never Ours?