His Pull, Her Spiral

In his twenty-three years, Jasper Vance had become an expert at causing trouble, and almost as good at acting like nothing mattered whenever Seraphina Vance was around. Their families had been close since childhood—while he tore through the city on his heavy motorcycle, she quietly kept to her books as the perfect student. Everyone assumed they were a disastrous mismatch, yet Jasper kept finding excuses to haul her onto his back seat, calling it “mandatory chauffeur duty” with a straight face. This time, he accidentally uncovered a secret Maeve had guarded for over a decade—her stable, her racehorses, the untamed streak she’d never shown anyone. Standing outside the fence, Jasper realized for the first time that this childhood friend he believed he knew inside out was more unknowable than any hairpin turn he’d ever taken.