“He was once the boy who protected me. Now, he’s the man who ruined me.”When her mother remarries into the wealthy but fractured Bellerose family, 17-year-old Elara Monroe gains more than just a new last name—she gains a stepbrother, Jaxon Bellerose. Brooding, magnetic, and off-limits, Jaxon becomes her closest secret... and her greatest downfall.Years later, Elara returns—scarred, hardened, and burning for vengeance. The boy she once loved destroyed her life and her innocence. But when fate traps them under the same roof again, the line between hate and hunger quickly dissolves.He wants to own her. She wants to ruin him. But the heart never forgets its first obsession…A dark, forbidden, enemies-to-lovers romance filled with steamy tension, betrayal, and twisted passion.

She was meant to marry his brother.But on the wedding day, he showed up instead.Aria Mendez, a fiery, headstrong woman with dreams of freedom, finds her life shattered when her family's debt sells her into a forced marriage. She expects to wed the mild, quiet heir of the Marcellus fortune—but Dominic Marcellus, the cold, powerful billionaire with scars deeper than his wealth, has other plans.He didn't ask. He took.And once Aria steps into his world, there's no escape.But behind his controlling gaze lies a man haunted by betrayal—and obsessed with making her his… in every way.He stole her life, her vows, her body...Now he wants her heart.