Caleb Chancellor and Ebony Knight were inseparable from the time they met as pre-teens. Then, at nineteen-years-old, Ebony experienced the unspeakable, challenging her growth as a young woman and destroying her belief in love. Everything changed. They could no longer be in the same room without throwing brutal looks and sharp words at each other. To the average person, the lovebirds seemed to have become archenemies. But appearances can be deceiving... For years, Ebony tried to put her painful past and her first love behind her. But Caleb wouldn’t leave her life or her heart, no matter how much she avoided him. Desperate times called for desperate measures and Ebony suddenly needed Caleb to help her heal the friend who once healed her. Can Ebony make amends with her old love and move on with healing her scars? As he grew from boy into man, Caleb Chancellor counted Ebony as a constant in his life. Then, she disappeared and refused to talk to him. Enraged, he learned to hate his only love... or so he thought. The circumstances that throw them together have him thinking about forbidden propositions and reclaiming the one woman who has always captivated him. Will these estranged lovers move forward to a bright future or will they hold on to a bitter past?