Inevitably Yours by Jo-Anne Joseph

Tara:
I stopped believing in fairytales after everything I loved was ripped from me.
I’m an optimist in a raincoat now.
Love, relationships, family, they’re all a farce.
Love left me broken, a shell of the woman I once was.
And I know it’s time to close myself off from the world.

Jude:
To hell with eighty-twenty relationships.
Why risk it, when I can avoid it?
I rebuilt my life in another country, focusing everything I have on my career,
But then a chance encounter with Tara Craig, the most stubborn, and frustrating woman alive, tests my limits,
and as much as I want to keep a distance, I can’t, because she’d marked my soul a long time ago.