Elena Marchetti has spent her career trying to outrun her name. Daniel Reyes has spent his trying to live up to his. Neither expects to fall for a stranger at a stalled construction site — until the stranger turns out to be the one person their families have spent twenty-six years teaching them to hate. The Marchettis and the Reyeses don't just compete. They have a history soaked in a lie so old it's calcified into hatred — and a half-finished tower in the middle of the city that neither family will let the other touch. Elena wants to tell the truth and finally let the feud die. Daniel wants to protect a father who never protected him. Between them is a building that was supposed to stay a ruin — and a love neither family will survive. Some things get built. Some things get buried. Aster & Ash is about what happens when a family finally has to choose which one love is.