“The screen behind the altar flickered. Amelia smiled automatically, fingers tightening around her bouquet as baby photos filled the ballroom. Her guests laughed softly. Then the video glitched. The next image wasn’t from her childhood. It was her fiancé with his tongue down her sister’s throat in the backseat of a car.” •••Amelia Carter always believed in fairy tale love stories until hers collapsed in front of hundreds of guests on her wedding day. Humiliated, betrayed, and abandoned by the only family she had left, Amelia does the unthinkable. She kisses a stranger. But what Amelia doesn’t know is that this stranger isn’t just anybody. He’s Lucien Saint. The ruthless billionaire feared by the elite and worst of all? Her fiancé’s older brother. Lucien should hate Amelia. Her family destroyed his years ago, and returning to the city was supposed to be the beginning of his revenge. But revenge becomes dangerously complicated when the enemy’s daughter turns out to be the same woman he can’t seem to get out of his head. Now trapped between betrayal, scandal, family secrets, and a man far more dangerous than heartbreak itself, Amelia soon realizes one terrifying truth: Kissing Lucien Saint might have been the biggest mistake of her life —or maybe just the best.

“In this house, we play pretend. We pretend my father is a saint. We pretend your mother isn’t a gold-digger. And we pretend you and I don’t want to ruin each other.”Amaya’s life was simple until her mother married Alejandro Moretti, the most powerful man in Lake Como. Overnight, she’s traded her California sun for a cold Italian villa and a step-brother who treats her like a virus.Julian Jace Moretti. He’s the heir to a billion-dollar empire by day, but the shadows of the night reveal a darker side. He’s a silent, scarred biker with adrenaline in his veins and a crown-of-thorns tattooed on his arm. He has one rule for Maya: Stay out of my sight, or I’ll make this beautiful life a living hell.Maya tried to follow the rules, she really did. Tried to ignore the scent of gasoline on his skin and the raw, feral hunger in his sea-green eyes. She tried to hate him for every cruel word and every cold shoulder.But there is a thin line between love and hate and now it’s been crossed. Now she’s caught in a web of family secrets, underground races, and a desire so forbidden it could burn the Moretti legacy to the ground. She was supposed to be his sister. He was supposed to be her enemy.But the desires of the heart are non-negotiable.Can Maya handle the dark secrets and everything that comes with falling in-love with her step brother?

Ivory had been in love with Elijah since they were small children. But she knew she had no chance with the boy who treated her like his younger sister. She always stood back and watched as he flirted with and dated numerous girls who weren't her, and her heart was broken into a million pieces more than once. At the age of 17, she is offered a scholarship to one of England's most prestigious universities, leaving her family and the boy she adored behind in the hope that their time apart will help her get over him. Three years later, during her summer vacation, she receives the devastating news that Elijah’s father has died. Completely devastated by the loss of the man who considered her his own. She returns to Los Angeles for the burial and runs into Eliajh again, who is much more handsome than he was back then. All the emotions she thought had vanished have returned, stronger than ever, and her heart aches for him. After seeing her for the first time in three years, Elijah is both relieved and angry that she left without telling him. That night, in a fit of consolation, Elijah kissed her, and the two had hot sex. Ivory could tell that things had changed drastically between them after that. But she only had three months before she had to return to England. Will everything finally turn out the way she wanted it to? Or will she run away from her emotions again?