When We Couldn't Pretend Anymore (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798255522156)

Not every well-built life is a whole life.

Elisa Valença has everything under control, until the day Ethan Mercer reappears.

The return of the man she never truly forgot shakes the life she spent years building. What once seemed buried in the past comes back with enough force to expose a truth she can no longer ignore: some stories never truly end. They simply hide beneath routine, success, and self-control.

Now Elisa must confront not only an interrupted love, but also the woman she became in order to survive everything that was left unresolved.

When We Couldn't Pretend Anymore is an intense, sophisticated second-chance romance about desire, memory, absence, and the courage it takes to face what time could never erase.

Because there comes a moment when functioning is no longer enough.

There comes a moment when pretending is no longer possible.