The Avrini Hotel was supposed to be a job.
For Ava Whitmore, three months on a Greek island means one struggling boutique hotel, one impossible turnaround, and one more chance to prove she is no longer the careless young woman who shattered her family. She does not expect the hotel to feel like memory. She does not expect its elegant owner to look at her as if she still remembers every broken part of her.
Francesca Nikolaidis has spent years preserving the hotel her late husband loved. To everyone else, it is devotion. To Ava, it begins to look like a beautiful prison.
As they work side by side beneath bougainvillea, whitewashed walls, and the heat of an island summer, Ava and Francesca find themselves drawn into a love that is tender, forbidden, and impossible to explain away. Ava is Emma's younger sister. Francesca was Emma's closest friend. Francesca has never loved a woman before.
But desire is only the beginning.
When old guilt, family wounds, and the hotel's hidden debts come to light, Ava and Francesca must decide whether love means saving the past, or choosing a future neither of them believed they deserved.
