Bona Fide (Discreet Cover)

 A second-chance, slow-burn, contemporary romance novel that explores what it really means to overcome and how healing looks different for every person.

Beauty doesn't happen by chance. I learnt that lesson a long time ago. Diamonds are built under pressure. Lives worth living are shaped through discipline and structure. The life I chose for myself was one filled with penthouses, dream cars, and the ability to acquire anything and anyone I desired. But it only took one night to remind me that even diamonds crack under too much pressure.

I was fifteen the first time I watched my life fall apart, and when I met Messiah Whitaker. Hopeless and in an even more hopeless place, he showed me there was still something worth hoping for in this cruel world we came to know. We didn't get to say goodbye, and the night we were ripped apart still haunts me. Now, fifteen years later, in an all-too-familiar place, I've fallen into him again. Maybe it's more than beautiful how he happens to show up right when I need him the most. I'm desperate to escape the life I carefully curated, and what's the worst that could happen on an impromptu, cross-country road trip with the one person who knows all my scars? I've always survived by playing by the rules. Now, Messiah is teaching me how to thrive by breaking them.

Second Chance At Love, Shared Trauma, Forced Proximity, Road Trip