Never with You: Always Say Never, Book 1

She's made exactly one promise she intends to keep: *never him.*

Some people are born to clash—different enough to spark, similar enough to burn. For her, he is every argument she's ever lost, every line she swore she'd never cross, every rule she wrote specifically because of the way he looks at her like he already knows how this ends.

He isn't supposed to be charming. He isn't supposed to make her laugh when she's furious. And he absolutely isn't supposed to show up in every corner of her carefully constructed life, dismantling her defenses one insufferable, irresistible moment at a time.

The tension between them is a living thing—sharp-edged and electric, stretched tight across every loaded silence and every accidental touch that neither of them acknowledges afterward. She tells herself it's hatred. He tells himself the same lie. But there's a terrifying difference between despising someone and not being able to stop thinking about them.

"Never" is such a confident word. It sounds like certainty until the person you said it about is standing close enough that certainty becomes the least interesting thing in the room.

Some love stories begin with a spark. This one begins with a war—and the most dangerous question of all: *what if losing is exactly what she's wanted all along?*