you were born to be mine and i was born to be yoursdonya stewarts chest filled with the soft beating wings of butterflies when she first met emmet graynes green eyes at the ripe age of five unable to identify the tugging pressure within her when in his presence donya moved through the first several years of her life addled by her feelings for the boy who was her best friends brother and very much like her own sibling but one cool autumn night in her mystifying teenage years emmet erases any ideas donya has of him being anything like a siblingdonya and emmet unable to deny the invisible cord that fetters them together on an incredibly visceral level begin a long journey on a road abounding with challenges hurdles and destructive forces their love for one another is absolute and the emotional link between them is strong but when they make a series of painful decisions and mistakes that pull them apart the strength of that tether is challengeddonyas career as a model took her around the world and away from emmet who was working hard for his law degree when donya makes a hard decision for both of them the tether between them stretches beyond what seems possiblethe tether contorted and quivered and groaned in protestwith age comes maturity and hindsight will emmet and donya have to live apart and with the consequences of their choices happy endings arent always a guarantee even for two people who were born into this world for each other will the link between them bring them together or prove to ensnare them in heartacheif you are in search of an angstfilled romance novel get tied into tetherednote from author tethered is meant for mature readers over the age of 18 this is a standalone novel reading my other published novels is welcome of course but not necessary