Hush

Sloane Mercer has spent six years learning how to become the kind of woman who can walk into a room full of beautiful monsters and smile.

The Asters destroyed her father, buried the truth beneath money and influence, and turned her family name into a warning. Now Sloane has found her way inside their world through Elliot Aster: the quiet, underestimated second son left with stress-triggered aphasia after the same crash that ruined her life.

To Sloane, Elliot is access. A weakness. A door.

But Elliot has been watching his family lie for years, and he is not nearly as fragile as they taught the world to believe. He knows Sloane is using him. He lets her anyway. Because her hunger for revenge may be the only thing dangerous enough to expose the truth.

What begins as manipulation becomes something sharper, uglier, and far more intimate. In a family where cruelty sounds like concern and silence can be used as evidence, Sloane and Elliot must decide what truth is worth when love itself becomes another kind of betrayal.

Because Sloane came to ruin the Asters.

She never meant to become one of them.