Ava Bennett is fighting to save her family's hotel from foreclosure when billionaire Ethan Blackwood offers her an impossible deal: marry him for one year in exchange for enough money to clear her debts. Desperate, she accepts. What begins as a cold business arrangement slowly becomes something deeper. But when Ava discovers Ethan has secretly been searching for her for years and that their marriage was never as accidental as it seemed, she must decide whether his love is genuine or built on deception.

She wasn't looking to be saved. He wasn't looking at all. And somehow that made everything worse. Zara Cole has spent the better part of a year learning how to take up less space — less noise, less feeling, less everything. At nineteen, she is good at surviving. She is not good at much else. Eli Voss doesn't belong at Harlow University any more than she does, except he arrived with a last name that opens doors and a reputation that closes people off. He is the kind of man women chase, and no one catches. Zara has no interest in being either. But when a silver ring falls in a hallway, and he is the one who picks it up, something shifts between them that neither of them asked for. He is a problem she can feel before she can name it. She is the first person in a long time who hasn't tried to figure him out. What follows is not a love story. Not at first. First, it is a collision of two people carrying too much, in a world that rewards him for everything, it punishes her for. It is slow. It is painful. And by the time either of them realizes what is happening, it is already too late to stop. The Ones Who Burn is a dark New Adult contemporary romance,