Forbidden Love

KaelenElara Vance is celebrating her new beginning—a fresh graduate, a new teacher, and finally free from the weight of her parents' expectations. A chance encounter at a club with Kaelen, a charming and insightful young man, leads to a night of intense passion and a connection that feels like a promise. For the first time, Elara lets her carefully constructed control shatter.

But on Monday morning, her new life collides with her secret night. Kaelen isn't just a stranger from a club—he's a student. Her student. Now, trapped in a classroom charged with dangerous tension and a secret that could destroy her career, Elara and Kaelen must navigate a forbidden attraction, the relentless fear of exposure, and the agonizing was their connection real enough to risk everything for?

Mateo


In the wake of his parents' divorce and his best friend's new life, Mateo Rodriguez feels like a ghost at the feast. He was the loyal soldier, the keeper of a dangerous secret that protected Kaelen and Elara's forbidden romance. But now that the secret is out, he's left standing on the outside, watching their perfect, coupled life unfold while his own crumbles.

Seeking refuge from his silent, empty house, Mateo finds an unexpected sanctuary with the only other person who knows the full weight of the Kaelen's mother, Sharon. Bonded by shared loneliness and the aftermath of the secret they both kept, their easy companionship slowly deepens into a connection that is as terrifying as it is undeniable.

But when their carefully built world is discovered, the resulting explosion threatens to shatter Mateo's friendship with Kaelen forever and destroy the very family Sharon worked so hard to protect. This is a story about the collateral damage of love, the lines between loyalty and betrayal, and the fragile, complicated peace we must find in the wreckage of our choices.

Liam


Liam is tired of being the "Keeper of Secrets." While packing for a college future that feels hollow, he's weighed down by the emotional fallout of his friends' scandals—a forbidden student-teacher affair and a devastating betrayal. Desperate to escape his role as the reliable, steady friend, he seeks one night of reckless, anonymous freedom. He finds it in Chloe, a magnetic stranger who offers a temporary escape from his tangled life.

But the universe has a cruel sense of irony. The morning after, Liam arrives at his father's house for a wedding, only to discover the girl from the bar is Chloe—his father's soon-to-be stepdaughter. Trapped in a suffocating web of new family expectations, they make a their one-night stand never happened.

Forced into proximity by the wedding, the lie becomes unbearable. The magnetic pull they felt that night refuses to be ignored, and the carefully constructed wall between them begins to crack. Now, Liam and Chloe face an impossible honor their families' new beginning and live a lie, or follow their hearts and detonate the very foundation of their parents' happiness.