REJECTED BY MY FIRST LOVE, CHASED BY THE CAMPUS KING

“For three years, Eliana Rose loved Darian Blake in silence. As a hardworking third-year Medicine and Surgery student at West Ridge University, she had little time for distractions. Between demanding lectures, endless textbooks, and the pressure of building a better future for herself, Darian was the one dream she had secretly allowed herself to keep. He was everything she admired: intelligent, kind, and effortlessly charming. She believed that if she loved him long enough, perhaps one day he would look at her and see the girl who had always been there. But when Eliana finally gathers the courage to confess her feelings, the answer shatters everything. Darian loves someone else. Heartbroken and determined not to let rejection destroy her future, Eliana makes a decision: romance can wait, but her dreams cannot. Then Lucien Cross enters her life. Handsome, wealthy, brilliant, and notoriously difficult to approach, Lucien is the campus king everyone knows but few dare to challenge. As the heir to Nexora Technologies, he has a future most students can only dream of and a complicated past he would rather leave behind. Their paths cross on a night neither of them expects to remember. But when Lucien suddenly chooses Eliana as his date for West Ridge University's most anticipated event, the entire campus begins asking questions. Caught between campus gossip, jealous friends, hidden feelings, and secrets that threaten to destroy the little trust she has left, Eliana must learn that a broken heart is not the end of her story. But what happens when the girl who was rejected by her first love becomes the one girl the campus king refuses to ignore? Sometimes, losing the person you wanted is only the beginning of finding the love you never expected.”