Marked by My StepbrotherGenre: College Romance, Stepbrother Romance, Fated Mates, Forbidden Love, Slow BurnWhat happens when your forbidden crush turns out to be your new stepbrother—and the only person fate has ever carved your name into?Nineteen-year-old Arielle Grant was never one to believe in fate, much less soulmates. But that was before her world turned upside down.He was my college crush. Now he’s my stepbrother. And the bond between us is no longer just human.I never meant to fall for Kael Rivers.Not the first time I saw him across the university courtyard, all stormcloud eyes and silent menace.Not when I bumped into him by mistake, and his fingers wrapped around my arm like he already owned me.Not even when I caught myself watching him like I was starving for something I couldn’t name.But I did. I fell. Hard. Quietly.Until everything I knew unraveled in one dinner.My mother was glowing. Her fiancé was kind.And Kael the stranger I couldn’t stop dreaming about was introduced to me as his son.My crush… is now my stepbrother.I tried to ignore the aching heat between us.Tried to keep things polite. Civil.But Kael isn’t just a boy. He’s danger wrapped in silence. Rage barely leashed beneath a calm surface.And he’s looking at me like I’m the one thing he was never meant to touch—but already has.There’s something wrong with the way my body responds to him.Something ancient. Instinctual. Unnatural.It tugs at my veins when he’s near.And when our hands brush…It feels like I’ve known him in a thousand lives before this one.There are rules against this.Family rules. College rules.Rules that don’t matter to the bond already forming between us.Because Kael isn’t entirely human.And neither am I.And when the bond between mates awakens, it doesn’t care about last names or broken homes. It only knows one thing:Mine.