Joséphine Vivon and Atticus Ashford fell in love long before they knew what to do with a love that strong.

Childhood friends turned teenage soulmates, they plan a life together until one night tears everything apart, forcing Joséphine to walk away heartbroken.

Five years later, she returns to the Ashford estate as an employee, and fate forces them into the cruelest kind of closeness. There, love and resentment live side by side. Stolen moments, silent longing, and two people aching for what they’ve lost but too wounded to claim it.

Now, after decades of circling what they never stop wanting, they are finally ready to stop pretending.

But, can two people who once lost everything to love risk destroying their carefully rebuilt lives for one more chance at forever?

Or will the love that once promised them the moon finally become the thing that tears them apart forever?

Tropes:

💙 Second Chance Romance

🌙 Slow Burn

💙 Childhood Friends to Lovers

🌙 Workplace Romance

💙 23 Years of “It’s Always Been You”

🌙 Pining & Yearning (to the extreme)