Chapter 1: Back Home for the Summer The front door opened on a whisper of air conditioning and lemon-scented polish. Ethan stepped inside, duffel bag slung over his shoulder, boots heavy on the entryway tile. The house was exactly as he remembered—quiet, suburban, obsessively clean. The kind of place where nothing unexpected ever happened. Except […]
đź“– Chapter 1: Bad Blood The screen door banged open, echoing through the quiet house, and Taylor dropped his duffel by the kitchen island with a heavy thud. “Seriously?” he muttered, wiping sweat from his brow. “No AC?” The kitchen was clean, too clean, smelling like lavender and books. And sure enough—sitting at the round […]
Chapter 1: Back Beneath One Roof The front door groaned open beneath a swirl of icy wind, and Harper stepped in like she owned the place — long dark brown hair dusted with snowflakes, boots laced up to her thighs, a long black coat hugging her hourglass curves. The red scarf around her neck popped […]
Chapter 1: Second Place Again The sun beat down hard on the Carter family pool, bleaching the white stone deck and glinting off still, steaming water. It was the first day of summer break, and Sadie stepped out of her dad’s old pickup in cutoff jean shorts and a tank top that clung to the […]
Chapter 1: Back Under Her Roof The sound of the front door creaking open carried through the house like a trigger—Rachel Carter froze in the kitchen, her hand tightening around the ceramic coffee mug she hadn’t yet filled. Morning sun spilled in stripes across the tile floor, warm and golden. The house had been quiet […]
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. […]
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.