Until You Broke Me

She had a plan. He wasn't in it.

Lara Hasan arrives at Weston University with two things: a full scholarship and walls built from grief. After losing her father at fifteen, she has spent four years becoming invisible — excellent grades, quiet life, no room for risk. The plan is simple. Four years. Medical school. Make her mother proud. No distractions.

Adrian Calloway is the definition of a distraction.

Charming, wealthy, and known for burning through girls like matches, he is everything Lara promised herself she would avoid. When they are forced together as chemistry lab partners, she expects the worst. What she does not expect is the boy behind the performance — the one who writes stories in a secret room behind a bookshop, who remembers how she takes her coffee, who looks at her like she is the first honest thing he has ever seen.

He falls first. Slowly, then completely.

She falls harder. Against every instinct she has.

What begins as resistance becomes friendship. Friendship becomes something neither of them can name. And the thing they cannot name becomes the most real, consuming, terrifying experience of both their lives.

But Adrian carries wounds of his own — a mother who disappeared, a father who controls everything, and a lifetime of learning that the person who cares more is the person who gets destroyed. When his father demands he choose between his future and the girl who makes him want to be brave, Adrian faces the one thing his charm cannot fix.

And Lara faces the one thing her walls were built to prevent.

Until You Broke Me is a contemporary college romance about first love, the courage it takes to be seen, and the devastating cost of choosing fear over the person who makes you feel alive.

Book One of a three-book series.