Before Dawn Betrays Us: By Morning, She Will Choose Between His Trust and Loyalty to Her Family

Emilia Sawicka has spent three years fighting for the future of her family’s lakeside hotel. The unfinished northern wing is draining money, the bank is losing patience, and without new financing the business may not survive another season. Emilia knows how to manage guests, employees, budgets, and emergencies. What she does not know is how many decisions her father and older brother have made without telling her.

Then Michał Zaremba arrives as the representative of Asterion, the investment fund that may be able to save the hotel.

He is calm, observant, relentlessly competent, and far too good at asking the questions Emilia’s family would rather avoid. His interest in the property is not entirely professional. Michał’s mother once owned the land beneath part of the hotel, and documents from the 2008 sale suggest the transaction may never have been fully settled.

A missing file. An old map marking a lakeside parcel. A brass key labeled with the number seven. A locked drawer in Emilia’s father’s office. Each discovery changes the meaning of the one before it, exposing financial arrangements, private promises, and family loyalties that have survived far longer than anyone intended.

At the same time, the distance between Emilia and Michał begins to disappear.

What starts as professional friction becomes reluctant respect, curiosity, trust, and an attraction neither of them can safely treat as simple. Michał may be the son of a woman with a multimillion-złoty claim against Emilia’s family. Emilia may be running the company whose future depends on proving that claim can be resolved. Every step closer makes their professional boundaries harder to maintain, while every new secret forces them to decide what honesty really costs.

For Emilia, protecting her family can no longer mean accepting everything they tell her. For Michał, seeking the truth means confronting not only the Sawickis but the choices made by his own parents. Both of them must decide whether loyalty requires silence, whether love can survive conflicting interests, and whether trust means knowing everything or respecting the boundaries around what is not yours to take.

Before Dawn Betrays Us is a contemporary adult romance layered with family secrets, financial pressure, emotional intimacy, and a mystery rooted in eighteen years of unfinished business. Set around a quiet hotel and a disputed stretch of lakeside land, it follows two people trying to build something honest while the past keeps demanding payment.

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E-bog: 2. oktober 2026