Lydia Darnell died after betrayal.She was framed by her family, abandoned by her husband, and discarded like trash. But death wasn’t the end. She wakes up three months before her murder with one chilling resolve.Once bitten, twice shy.This time, she would never take the fall for her sister’s crimes. She would not stoop low to beg for her cold billionaire husband’s attention. Lydia sets out to dismantle the gilded cage they had used to imprison her.And she certainly will never let the so-called “gratitude” be used as a leash.Adrian Blackwell watches in stunned silence until the wife he ignored becomes the woman he can’t live without. Now that he is obsessed with her, he would do anything to win her back.But Lydia’s done playing victim. Her revenge is quiet, lethal, and flawless without an iota of empathy.Along comes Lucas Costello, a kind architect who shows her what real love looks like.And Adrian realizes too late that the woman he had been hell-bent on destroying is the only one who ever truly loved him.He wants her back again, but some second chances, they come too late.

Knox Callahan, Crestwood High golden boy and hockey captain… my biggest tormentor.All it had taken was one clumsy spill in biology class to make me his favourite target.And there is no escaping him, no matter how hard I fight back.Then the decision that changed everything came."Annalise, I got married. We are moving," mom said.And the new house? It turned out to be Knox's.Because somehow, while I was busy surviving him, his father had been out there and managed to steal my mother's heart before secretly marrying her.And now the boy who made my life hell was now my stepbrother but there is nothing remotely brotherly about the way Knox looks at me.Or even the way his hands would slide up my skin each time he was near me.It is quite hard… keeping up appearances and pretending the tension suffocating every room that we both happened to step into doesn't exist.The more we share the same space, the harder it becomes to remember why I should stay the fuck away from my new stepbrother.And Knox? He doesn’t even try..He corners me and touches me at every opportunity in ways that can never be mistaken for anything innocent. The darkness I once feared resided inside of him begins to feel dangerously like something I really crave.But I am a good girl.And good girls shouldn't want their stepbrothers.Yet I am running out of reasons to resist.