Jay raised his son alone. He doesn't ask for much-just stability, loyalty, and the kind of life you build with your own hands. Then Sofia arrives in Nick's life, and everything becomes complicated. She's beautiful and intelligent in a way Nick doesn't appreciate. Jay sees it immediately. He also sees the danger in looking too long, in feeling too much. She's off-limits. Untouchable. His son's girlfriend. But knowing something is wrong and being able to stop it are two different things. What unfolds between them is raw, intense, and impossible to ignore-a collision of forbidden desire and the bonds that are supposed to hold a family together. A dark, gritty novella about temptation, loyalty, and the impossible choices we make when everything we love is on the line.

The passionate story of Tessa and Hardin continues as family secrets, deep betrayals, and career opportunities threaten to tear them apart.

Noel Smith fighting crippling depression, as she leaves off for a new chapter in her life; college. She's never truly had anyone in her life that has emotionally cared for her, as she arrives to her new home town, nothing keeping her from leaving the place that she grew up in. However, meeting a beautiful stranger which draws her in closer, developing feelings, one-sided feelings may I add, while trying to separate business and pleasure; she learns and experiences things that she thought she never would. But will something from the past destroy everything all together?