"Who are you?" I asked the man who was engrossed in playing with my little son with his back turned towards me. As if it was the cue, my daughter who was holding my little finger just now, ran to that man as he turned towards me. My breath hitched in my throat as I went numb for a minute. I could feel my breath getting irregular as he stared at my face with a smile. With that damn smile, which I longed for over a decade. "I presume that I'm the inspiration for all the men in your books, Miss Chang." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Valerie Chang, a 27-year-old author working in VH Publishers as a full-time author and a single mother of twins, is striving in her life to provide for her kids and make her name as a prominent author. What happens if she meets her high school crush from ten years ago who vanished from her life as soon as she graduated high school?

𝑰𝒏 𝒂 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝑰𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒎 𝑫𝑴𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒔𝑨𝒑𝒑 𝒏𝒖𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒔, 𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒔𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒊𝒍 𝑰𝑫. 𝙏𝙍𝙊𝙋𝙀𝙎 & 𝙏𝙃𝙀𝙈𝙀𝙎: ♡ Strangers to Friends to Lovers ♡ Slow Burn ♡ He Falls First & Harder ♡ Protective MMC ♡ "Who Did This To You?" Energy ♡ Healthy Love After Toxic Love ♡ Second Chances - But Not With Him ♡ Found Family & Sibling Bonds ♡ Forced Proximity ♡ Jealous but Respectful ML ♡ Family Secrets & Suspense ♡ Emotional Healing ♡ Angst & Yearning Twenty-year-old 𝐒𝐢𝐲𝐚 𝐓𝐲𝐚𝐠𝐢 learned the hard way that sometimes the person you love most can leave the deepest scars. So she keeps her world small...until she recieves a message from a stranger : "𝘏𝘪. 𝘞𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘢 𝘣𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴?" What begins with emails and late-night conversations becomes hours-long calls, shared secrets, and a connection that feels safer than anything she's known. Then she finally meets the person behind the screen 𝐍𝐞𝐢𝐥 𝐇𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐬. Twenty-two, studying medicine in India, impossibly calm and dangerously observant, Neil notices everything - especially her. He notices when she skips meals. He remembers the little things. He gives her space without ever walking away. For the first time, Siya wonders if love can feel safe. Then her past returns. 𝐄𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐚. The boy who broke her at fifteen. A family mystery that has been buried for years starts resurfacing. And a brother who once promised to protect her is now threatening her with mysterious, hidden motives, and secrets she doesn't understand. Neil is hiding secrets too. With his return to his old life, falling in love was never supposed to happen. But maybe some hearts collide for a reason. WHEN HEARTS COLLIDE