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Emmett Rhodes believes in blueprints, physics, and structures that can be measured, tested, and trusted. As a talented structural engineer, he has built his life around certainty-until the day he moves into Sterling Lofts and meets the mysterious woman living across the hall.Evelyn Kingsley does not welcome her new neighbor. Instead, she looks at Emmett with unbearable sorrow and predicts his future with terrifying precision. She tells him he will be fired on Tuesday at exactly two o'clock, forced to leave his firm by three, and moving to another city before the end of the month. Emmett dismisses her as unstable, determined to prove that his life cannot be dictated by a stranger's prophecy. But Tuesday arrives, and every detail comes true.His dismissal is only the beginning. Strange migraines, impossible flashes of memories, the scent of rain and ozone, and a growing sense of déjà vu convince Emmett that something is deeply wrong with reality. Then evidence appears suggesting that the woman he thought was trying to destroy him may actually be trying to save him.Evelyn has a secret. She knows Emmett from a future he cannot remember-a future in which they loved, married, and built a life together before tragedy tore it apart. She has returned to the past with one desperate purpose: to prevent Emmett from taking the job that will eventually place him on a rain-soaked highway where a fatal accident awaits. Her cruel words, fabricated accusations, and deliberate attempts to make him hate her are all part of a desperate plan to force him out of the city before the appointed day.But Emmett refuses to follow her script.As the timeline begins fighting back, coincidences become increasingly dangerous. Friends question his sanity, evidence is manipulated against him, and the boundaries between past and present begin to collapse. Emmett realizes that Evelyn's greatest sacrifice is not her attempt to change fate-it is her willingness to make the man she loves hate her if that is the price of keeping him alive.When the final confrontation arrives, Emmett discovers the flaw in the future she has been trying to preserve. The predicted "move" is not simply a relocation; it is the movement that places him on the road to his death. By refusing to leave, he breaks the sequence and survives the moment that was supposed to destroy him.For the first time, Evelyn can stop pretending to be his enemy. Emmett can finally see the woman behind the cruel mask-not as a stranger, but as the love of his life. Together, they choose to remain in the city, rebuild their shattered lives, and create a future that neither of them has ever seen before.A story of fate, sacrifice, time, and impossible love, Before You Knew Me asks one haunting question: if you knew exactly how the person you loved would die, how much of yourself would you sacrifice to save them?