Some love stories don't end because two people stop loving each other. Sometimes that's the whole tragedy - that they never do.

Elena Marchetti came to a festival in Athens hoping for nothing more than a good night out. Instead she met Adrian - sharp-suited, guarded, and, without her knowing it, the founder of the very company she worked for. What begins as a chance encounter under festival lights becomes a love story neither of them saw coming: secret generosity, a slow-burn confession, a relationship built across countries, time zones, and everything either of them was too afraid to say out loud.

But love isn't the same as honesty. And for Elena and Adrian, the truth always seems to arrive one step too late, through a stray photograph, a deleted message, a stranger's offhand comment, an HR document meant for someone else's eyes. Every time they rebuild what's broken, something new cracks beneath it. Every "last chance" becomes another chance. Every goodbye becomes another beginning.

Across festivals and fellowships, birthdays and breakups, a tattoo that was supposed to mean forever and a phone call that finally means the end, Never Meant to Last is the story of two people who loved each other completely - and discovered, painfully, that love was never the thing standing between them and happiness. Trust was.

For readers who fell hard for the addictive, gut-wrenching intensity of After-style New Adult romance, and who aren't afraid of a love story that hurts exactly as much as it should, this is the book that will keep you up past midnight, reading just one more chapter, promising yourself you'll stop after this one.

You won't.