Illuminate You: The Enlightenment Series: Book 1

An epic love story begins...After seven long years, Catherine returns home to bury her father and her hurtful past only to discover her world is not as it seems. An old friend, Charlie, reappears in her life in a way she never imagined, driving her MAD and BREATHLESS. Charlie's keeping secrets but Catherine's stolen his heart. Will the truth drive them apart?*******Charlie Hearst is alone in the world, struggling to find himself. His one true friend, his obsession, his soulmate, Catherine Mayvin, left town on a college scholarship with no sign of returning, leaving Charlie behind as a distant memory. Restless and longing for greatness and the day when Catherine returns home, Charlie spends the last of his meager inheritance from his mother's death and ventures on an epic journey around the globe. At the pinnacle of his trek, Charlie lands in Nepal and discovers he possesses a super-human gift, with a catch. Before he can reign in his newfound powers, Charlie takes a trip into the deep that will change the course of his and Catherine's lives forever. Horrified by the events he's set in motion, Charlie resolves to devote his entire life to Catherine and her family and make amends for his reckless, selfish actions, even if it means the ultimate sacrifice - to never have her in his arms in the end. Charlie returns to the western hemisphere a changed man. His name, his physique and his entire persona transformed.Catherine Mayvin loves the classics, with a penchant for Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. She never fit in with the private school crowd in her Northern Virginia beltway hometown of McLean. Catherine found her escape from that surface-level world in the quiet pace of college life in the North Carolina small town of Chapel Hill. Unaware of her father's quickly declining health, she launches straight into law school scarcely returning home in over five years. On the last day of class during her 2nd year of law school, Catherine's quiet school days come to a screeching halt when she attends an outdoor concert. Catherine has an otherworldly experience while lying in the meadow on the concert grounds and makes a reckless mistake with her on-again off-again boyfriend Curt that will change the course of their lives forever. 15 months later, in the midst of a global pandemic, she returns home after the death of her father about to inherit the family defense business that is making global headlines.Within hours of Catherine's return home, strange events begin to happen to her and she discovers she's been deliberately kept in the dark about her recent past with none other than her estranged childhood friend, Charlie Hearst, at the heart of the unsettling revelations. Will Catherine's inner battle between the hurt she feels from Charlie's betrayal and the undeniable connection they share stop her from learning the truth about her life? Will Charlie's secrets drive Catherine from him forever?Catherine and Charlie's story begins in Illuminate You, The Enlightenment Series: Book 1