Always Never Yours

She's cursed to be everyone's almost—the girl who turns boys into better men, just in time for someone else to keep them.

Megan Harper has accepted her fate: she's a stepping stone, not a destination. Every guy she's ever dated has fallen head-over-heels in love immediately after dating her—just never *with* her. So when she's cast as Juliet in the school production, she figures Romeo's tragic ending is pretty on-brand for her love life anyway.

What she doesn't figure on is Owen Okita.

Her co-stage manager is insufferably organized, annoyingly principled, and absolutely certain Megan is wrong about everything—including herself. He challenges every excuse she makes, sees through every deflection she throws at him, and somehow makes rehearsal feel less like punishment and more like the best part of her day.

The problem? Getting close to Owen means risking exactly what she swore she'd never do again: wanting something real. And Owen has his own carefully constructed reasons to keep his distance.

Between stolen glances in the wings, script pages covered in arguments that feel suspiciously like flirting, and one unforgettable night that changes everything, Megan starts to wonder if her curse was never about being unlovable.

Maybe she just hasn't let anyone love her yet.

*Always Never Yours* is the story of a girl who spent so long being someone's beginning that she forgot she deserves to be someone's everything.