Chapter One – The Boy Next Door Claire wasn’t wearing a bra the first time Daniel Reed walked into her store—and the bastard knew it. It was early summer, too hot to care. Her tank top clung to her skin, and her nipples were hard from the cheap A/C unit humming against the far wall. […]
Month: May 2025
He was her stepson. She was his father’s wife. But when he came home from college, the tension boiled over. Now, nothing is off limits—not the kitchen counter, not the bedroom, not even the truth. She told herself it was wrong. Her soaked panties said otherwise.
“This doesn’t feel like starting over,” she said, voice low.
Caleb traced her jaw with his thumb, slow and reverent. “That’s because we never really ended.”
Eva’s breath hitched.
“I broke things,” she whispered.
“Then let’s build something better,” he murmured. “No pretending. No perfect. Just real.”
She didn’t answer.
But when she leaned in and kissed him—slow, open, certain—it was the closest thing to a yes either of them had ever given.
A haunting gothic mystery about a house that remembers, a girl who vanished, and the voices that refused to stay buried. Some inherit land. Others inherit silence.
When a bitter rivalry turns into an unstoppable summer fling, Lexi and Ethan learn the hard way that heat doesn’t always fade with the sun. What begins in detention becomes a summer neither of them will forget—raunchy, real, and far too hot to keep a secret.