Adel has always felt like an outsider. She was adopted when the biological son of a successful businesswoman and a famous surgeon left to study abroad. And all these years she has been hearing a condemning whisper behind her back: “If it weren’t for that girl, Averian would have come home! They just found him a replacement!”
The children of Veronica and Kirill Koch are strangers to each other. They have never met, never talked, and never tried to change that. But everything changes when their son Averian decides to return to his homeland after fourteen years. He hadn’t given much thought to the girl his parents adopted years ago. But now that everyone calls Adel his sister—and his best friend is literally obsessed with her—Averian has to face not only the public opinion but also fight against himself, because his “not-sister” is far too good.