My best friend’s dad should be off-limits. Now I understood why they say the forbidden fruit tastes sweetest. **** I’m Maya Raymond. I thought I’d buried my teenage crush on Robert Ricardo five years ago when he vanished from our lives. Now he’s back and everything has changed. The gentle father figure I secretly admired is gone, replaced by someone absolutely forbidden and irresistible. I’m twenty now, sworn off men completely, but I know exactly what I want. All of him. Even if it destroys everything. What started as an innocent birthday surprise turned into witnessing far more than I bargained for. When he caught me fingering myself in his bathroom, I swear, he was meant to kiss me. His hands wrapped tightly around my throat which should have terrified me. Instead, all I felt was raw pleasure. He tore my pants and forces them in my mouth, before sending me out of his room—I knew I should have run. He can parade his sophisticated women around. He can keep warning me that I’m playing with fire. But I’ve never been good at following rules—especially when breaking them feels this incredible. Just when I think I’m winning him over, after giving him my virginity… He announces his engagement to someone else. Everyone thinks she’s perfect for him. Everyone except me. She thinks she’ll be my best friend’s stepmom—no, the title belongs to me. I’m about to prove her wrong. ~~~ Trigger Warning: This book contains forbidden age-gap romance and mature themes that may be triggering to some readers. Reader discretion is advised.

“Thank you for not loving her, your wife is now mine,” Sage said as he wrapped his hand around my waist. **** Lily Thornfield is the brilliant mastermind behind her family’s werewolf business, but in a world where only Alpha males can lead. She’s forced to work from the shadows. When charming Xavier Blackwood sweeps her off her feet with promises of true partnership, Lily believes she’s finally found her perfect mate. She couldn’t be more wrong. Unknown to her, Xavier is a master manipulator with one goal. Steal the Thornfield fortune and discard Lily like yesterday’s trash. Within weeks of their wedding, the loving mate becomes a controlling tyrant who strips away her freedom, her dignity, and her voice. When he brings his pregnant mistress home—who‘s no better, Lily becomes the servant and a visitor who stays in the guest room in the house her parents gifted them. When powerful Alpha Sage Whitmore recognizes the coded messages Lily has been hiding in business task, he becomes her lifeline to the outside world. As their secret communications turn to a love story, they begins plotting her escape from Xavier’s twisted game. One passionate kiss changes everything. But one hidden camera destroys it all. Now Sarah is locked in the basement with her body battered. Lily faces an impossible choice: submit to a lifetime of abuse or risk everything to reclaim her power. When Sage arrives to save her, she makes the most dangerous decision of her life—she lies.