Honey Lee

Blurb Lila Monroe used to be invisible. Overweight, poor, and underestimated by everyone who surrounded her including the boy she thought she loved Lila had grown used to fading into the background. She knew what it was like to be the punchline, to be the before photo in someone else's tale. Until the night she was dumped by her poster-boy boyfriend, Dylan Chase, in front of half the university because she was no longer "his type." That night, heartbroken and humiliated, Lila wandered the streets in a tequila-induced blur of tears, cursing the darkness that she would make him pay. And she wasn't the only one. Noah Carter silent, unassuming, and always in the background found her. Not only that night, but much sooner. He observed the real her when everyone else preferred to turn a blind eye. He called her an Uber, locked her house securely, and stayed in the background. Because Noah thought Lila deserved a chance to rise on her own terms. With the help of her best friend Kiera a firecracker fashion major who doesn't say no to anything Lila is recreated over the summer. But it's not just her body. It's her confidence. Her voice. Her fire. She's back on campus now with new clothes, a new style, and a new resolve. But the old world hasn't changed and neither has Dylan, who's suddenly interested in having her back. Only this time, she's not quite that same girl. And then, naturally, there is Noah, who still keeps cropping up at the café, in school, on quiet night walks gentle, observant, quietly infatuated. He knew her when she was nobody's current obsession. Where confessions and tears and secrets blow things out of proportion, Lila must ask the ultimate question: Will she let the world decide her value? Or will she choose the love that never once asked her to alter? Because glowing up isn’t about becoming someone else. It’s about finally being seen as who you’ve always been.

"Mother, I love him. Aiden is my mate. The bond we share is beyond anything I’ve ever felt. Please, let me marry him," Seraphina pleaded, her voice trembling with emotion.Elysia’s face hardened, her eyes shadowed with a deep, knowing sadness. "Seraphina, you cannot marry him. The coven will never allow it. You must understand… if you choose this path, it will be the end of you."Seraphina’s breath caught in her throat, her heart pounding in her chest. "What… What do you mean, the end of me? Are you saying… they would kill me?"Elysia's expression softens, but the gravity of her words is undeniable. "Yes, my child. They will see your love as a betrayal, a threat to everything we have built. The coven will stop at nothing to protect its own. If you marry Aiden, they will kill you."Seraphina’s jaw drops, her eyes wide with disbelief. The room seems to close in around her as the weight of her mother’s words sinks in. "But… he is my heart, Mother. I chose him. Isn’t our bond sacred? How can love be a death sentence?" She said with tears filling up her eyes she went out slamming the door angrily. Unaware of their former lives, they are drawn together in high school. As they rekindle their love, memories of their tragic past begin to resurface. But with dark forces at play and old enemies lurking, can they rewrite their fate, or are they doomed to repeat their cursed history?