For years, Amelia has been in love with the one man she can't have: Lucas, her father's best friend. He's a noble, handsome man who has been a constant presence in her life since childhood. Amelia, now a final-year university student, has spent her teenage years burying the forbidden love. But when her parents' job transfer leaves her in Lucas's care, a fragile hope ignites within her. Living under the same roof, she sees an opportunity to bridge the gap between the girl he once knew and the woman she has become. In a moment of desperate honesty, she confesses her feelings. But Lucas’s reaction is not what she expects. He's been fighting the very same feelings for years, caught between his loyalty to his best friend and his undeniable attraction to the woman Amelia has become. Now, as the line between friendship and love blurs, they must decide if their past is a boundary they can't cross, or a foundation for a love that was always meant to be.

She had everything anyone could ever hope for-a thriving career, a wealthy family, and a boyfriend she thought she’d marry and have children with.Until the night she walked in on him… with his best friend.Heartbroken. Humiliated. Confused.Amara’s perfect world shatters in a blink of an eye when she catches her boyfriend in bed—not with another woman, but with his lifelong male best friend. Was he gay all along? Did she never truly know him? Or worse… did she turn him that way?But pain has a way of awakening the mind—and Amara’s revenge is anything but predictable.Her plan? Go after the one man her ex would never expect—his father.Handsome, powerful, and recently divorced, Victor Caldwell is the ultimate forbidden temptation. As Amara draws closer, every kiss becomes a weapon, every whispered word a step deeper into the fire. But revenge is never clean—and soon, Amara finds herself trapped between two dangerous emotions: the hatred that fuels her plan… and the desire she never saw coming.How far will she go to make him hurt?And when the game turns deadly, who will pay the final price?