After the Last Kiss

Mara Ellis has spent her first two years of college avoiding complications: keep her grades high, protect her scholarship, and never let anyone close enough to ruin her plans. Then she meets Julian Cross, the magnetic senior whose confidence hides a dangerous talent for disappearing when things get real. Their chemistry is immediate, reckless, and impossible to resist. Late-night study sessions become stolen kisses, secret weekends become intimate confessions, and Mara begins to believe Julian might be the one person who truly sees her. But Julian has a past he refuses to discuss—and a future he has already promised to someone else. When one explosive revelation turns their private romance into campus gossip, Mara must decide whether the connection that once made her feel alive is destroying her from the inside out. Set against crowded dorms, rain-slick campus paths, crowded parties, and the pressure cooker of college life, After the Last Kiss is a passionate, emotionally charged story about first love, betrayal, boundaries, and the painful freedom of choosing yourself.