Amara Kingsley has spent her life insulated by money, silence, and lies. The daughter of a billionaire, she believes danger is something that happens to other people—until the night she is marked as collateral. Luca Moretti is not a savior. He is a weapon. Sent to guard her after a failed kidnapping, Luca becomes Amara’s shadow—watching, controlling, deciding who gets close and who disappears. He doesn’t offer comfort. He offers survival. And survival comes at a cost. The closer Amara gets to the truth behind her family’s fortune, the deeper Luca pulls her into his world—a place where loyalty is enforced, desire is dangerous, and love is just another way to bleed. What begins as protection turns into possession. What feels like passion becomes a quiet war for control. Luca knows how this ends. He’s been ordered to destroy the Kingsleys if they fall out of line. Amara knows it too. And yet, she still lets him touch her. Because in a world built on power and violence, loving the wrong man may be the most dangerous rebellion of all.

After five years abroad, Emma Clarke returns to her hometown for Christmas with one intention: close the door on the past and leave again before it can reopen her wounds. What she doesn’t expect is to find her childhood home marked for sale—or to come face to face with James Parker, the first man she ever loved, now the developer tasked with buying and redeveloping the property. The house holds everything she tried to escape: a mother’s absence, a father’s silence, and a love she abandoned in the name of ambition. James, steady and composed, has built a life rooted in the same town Emma once fled. To him, the house is just another project. To her, it is memory, grief, and unfinished sentences. As frosty mornings give way to candlelit evenings and Christmas approaches, Emma and James are forced into close proximity—sorting documents, clearing rooms, revisiting places where promises were once made. Old feelings resurface, sharper and more complicated than before, tangled with resentment, pride, and the lives they’ve built apart. But the holidays are temporary, and so is Emma’s stay. When the season ends, the house will be sold, the past sealed, and choices will have to be made: Is love something you return to—or something you outgrow? And when everything familiar is about to be erased, what is worth holding on to? Home for the Last Holiday is a poignant holiday romance about nostalgia, growth, and the quiet courage it takes to choose love when the timing has never been right.