Trust Fate

Some loves choose you. This one was never a choice at all.

Elbib was left on a doorstep with nothing but a name and a warning: Fate is watching. No note explaining where he came from. No family arriving later to claim him. Just those four words, and a newborn boy with a faint gold mark curled into the skin of his wrist - a mark his adoptive parents spent years trying to explain away as a birthmark, a trick of the light, anything but what it actually was.

Because as Elbib grew, so did the flicker. A gold shimmer that crossed his eyes in moments of danger. A pull toward places he'd never been and shouldn't have recognized. A quiet, bone-deep certainty that his life was being watched - guided - by something that had already decided how his story would end before he'd taken his first breath.

He told himself it was nothing. A story parents tell strange children to make the world feel less random.

Then Monica finds him.

She doesn't stumble into his life by accident, and she isn't looking for someone to fall in love with. She's spent longer than she can explain searching for one person - the one Fate wrote her toward, centuries before either of them existed - and the instant she sees the mark on his wrist catch the light the exact way her own eyes do, she knows the search that has cost her everything is finally over.

But a love written in advance was never going to be simple. It comes with a price neither of them agreed to pay, and a clock neither of them can see.

Every time Monica lets herself get close, something unseen pulls her away without warning - sometimes for days, sometimes for months, always without explanation. Every time she returns, she carries a secret she isn't ready to tell him: what she actually is, and how much longer she's allowed to stay in a life that was never supposed to be hers to keep.

Elbib isn't the only one changing. As Monica's visits grow shorter and her disappearances grow longer, the gold mark on his skin begins to burn brighter - as if it, too, is counting down to something neither of them can stop. Then a woman from his childhood resurfaces: the boarding-house landlady who once took him in for a single winter and vanished without a word the morning he left. She remembers things about him she was never told. She speaks like someone who has met him before he was born. And the boy who once dismissed his own story as a comforting lie is forced to accept that Fate has been watching far more intimately than he ever imagined - and that she may be closer to him than he can bear to believe.

As the truth about Monica finally unravels, thread by golden thread, Elbib is left with a choice no one warned him he'd have to make: trust a love he never chose for himself and risk losing everything he's built to keep it - or let her go, and lose the one person Fate swore, from the very beginning, was his. Forever.

TRUST FATE is a slow-burn paranormal romance about fated mates, ancient prophecy, hidden identities, and the unbearable cost of a love written before time began. For readers who crave destiny that feels dangerous, secrets that cut deep, a bond that refuses to be broken by distance or time, and an ending that will not let them go long after the last page.