Crossing the Lineage

"I thought he was a ghost in my best friend's life. I didn't know he would become the storm in mine."

For ten years, Heather Amelie Reyes has been the shadow-sister to Irish Blaire Tuazon. She's survived every heartbreak, every exam, and every late-night crisis by Irish's side. But there was one thing Irish never shared: her father.

Gilbert Tuazon was a myth-a series of expensive gifts and "busy" excuses.

Until the day he wasn't.

When Heather finally walks into the Tuazon mansion, she isn't greeted by an aging, distant father. She's met by a man in his prime. 40s, tall, dark, and radiating a level of raw, unfiltered sex appeal that makes her breath hitch and her composure shatter.

He's the man she isn't supposed to notice. He's the man she's definitely not supposed to crave.

But as the summer heat rises, the lines of loyalty start to blur. Between stolen glances in the quiet of his study and the agonizing, slow-burn tension that crackles every time they're in the same room, Heather is realizing one terrifying truth:

Some lineages are meant to be crossed. And she's never wanted to break a rule more than this one.