🖤 THE GIRL HE WASN’T SUPPOSED TO LOVEAmara Cole has spent her whole life believing one thing:The Hayes family destroyed hers.She doesn't know exactly what happened twenty years ago. Whenever she asks, her mother changes the subject. Whenever the Hayes name is mentioned, the room suddenly becomes quiet.But there is one rule Amara has heard countless times:“Stay away from the Hayes family.”And Amara has always obeyed.Until she meets him.Adrian Hayes is charming, confident, and completely different from the monster Amara imagined his family to be.Their first meeting is nothing special.Their second meeting is a coincidence.Their third feels like fate.Soon, Adrian becomes the person Amara looks forward to seeing every day. The person who makes her laugh when she's having a terrible day. The person who notices when she's pretending to be okay. And slowly, without either of them planning it, their friendship begins turning into something neither of them is ready to name.For the first time in her life, Amara feels like someone truly understands her.And then she discovers his surname.Hayes.The same Hayes her family has hated for twenty years.The same family she's been warned never to trust.The same family she was never supposed to love.Adrian is just as shocked when he discovers that the girl he has fallen for is a Cole.Their families immediately demand that they stay apart.But feelings don't disappear just because people order them to.So Amara and Adrian begin keeping their friendship a secret.Secret conversations.Secret meetings.Secret smiles across crowded rooms.And promises neither of them knows if they can keep.But their families aren't the only problem.Because someone knows the real reason behind the feud.Someone has been hiding the truth for twenty years.And when Amara discovers an old photograph, a forgotten letter, and a name that connects both families, she begins to wonder whether everything she has been told is a lie.What really happened twenty years ago?Why did the Coles and Hayes become enemies?Why does Adrian's father refuse to talk about the past?And why does Amara's mother seem terrified that her daughter might discover the truth?As Amara gets closer to the answers, she realizes something terrifying:Her love story with Adrian may have started long before either of them was born.Now she has a choice.Follow her family's rules and walk away from the boy who has become her safest place…Or risk everything to uncover the truth.Because sometimes, love isn't difficult because two people don't belong together.Sometimes, love is difficult because someone is determined to keep them apart.And Amara is about to discover that the biggest secret in her family's history may also be the reason she and Adrian found each other.He was the boy she was warned to hate.She was the girl he was never supposed to love.But maybe…they were never supposed to meet by accident. 🥀🖤🖤