Almost Yours

He should’ve let her go. Instead, Liam Morel spent three years remembering exactly what it felt like to want Sophie Dubois.

Now Sophie is back in Geneva, sharper, angrier, and very aware of everything Liam once denied them. She has no intention of making his carefully controlled life easy, especially when she knows the attraction he tried to bury never really disappeared.

Liam has spent those same three years keeping a promise to Élise, the woman he swore he would protect. From the outside, his life looks settled. He has a successful career, a relationship that should make sense, and every reason to leave the past where it belongs. Then Sophie walks back into his life and reminds him how little control he ever had where she was concerned.

She knows he still wants her. He knows giving in could destroy everything he has promised to preserve. And while Liam struggles with the desire he never managed to kill, Élise begins to see the cracks in their relationship and finds herself drawn toward Dr. Theo Marchetti, a man carrying complications of his own.

Sophie wants Liam to finally admit what has always existed between them, while Liam is still trying to convince himself that loyalty matters more than what he wants. But three years apart have done nothing to make either of them better at staying away.

Almost Yours is an emotionally intense, morally grey contemporary romance about forbidden desire, obsession, loyalty, jealousy, and four people discovering how quickly the life they thought they wanted can fall apart.

Publication note:
Almost Yours is Book One of The Almost Series and contains the first part of a story originally published in Burn With Me by Cara Ravelli. The story continues in the following books and should be read in series order.

ELISE

I loved a ghost before I loved Liam Morel.
When Noah died, Liam saved me.
But love born from grief always cracks eventually.
Then Sophie appeared and I saw the man I loved come alive for someone else.
I tried everything to keep him: submission, silence, perfection.
I gave him everything he asked for… until there was nothing left of me.


SOPHIE
I knelt for him once. Not for pleasure. For mercy.
Four years later, I came back to finish what I started.
But in Geneva, the Sceau Blanc controls everything—marriages, alliances, legacies.
Liam Morel is their perfect creation.
With me, he stops pretending.
And I already know what loving him will cost.

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Almost Yours

Liam Morel never planned to fall for the woman his best friend left behind.
But grief doesn’t ask permission and neither does love.

In the aftermath of loss, Liam and Élise Adler build something that almost feels like stability.
A shared life in Geneva. A promise that looks like devotion. A love that feels… safe.

Until Sophie Dubois comes back.

Sophie doesn’t believe in safe.
She believes in truth. In desire. In the kind of connection that doesn’t fade just because it should. And Liam has never forgotten her.

As the past refuses to stay buried, Élise begins to see the cracks and finds herself drawn to Dr. Theo Marchetti, a man who offers something Liam never could: peace without pretending.

This isn’t a story about betrayal.
It’s about what happens when love is no longer enough.

In a world built on expectations, loyalty, and illusion, four people are forced to choose:

Stay… and slowly disappear.
Or leave… and lose everything.

Publication note:

Almost Yours is part of The Almost Series and contains the first part of a story originally published in the novel Burn With Me by Cara Ravelli.

ELISE

I loved a ghost before I loved Liam Morel.
When Noah died, Liam saved me.
But love born from grief always cracks eventually.
Then Sophie appeared and I saw the man I loved come alive for someone else.
I tried everything to keep him: submission, silence, perfection.
I gave him everything he asked for… until there was nothing left of me.


SOPHIE
I knelt for him once. Not for pleasure. For mercy.
Four years later, I came back to finish what I started.
But in Geneva, the Sceau Blanc controls everything—marriages, alliances, legacies.
Liam Morel is their perfect creation.
With me, he stops pretending.
And I already know what loving him will cost.