My Stepdad's Secret Heir

A grieving daughter. A powerful, possessive stepfather. A forbidden desire that will shatter their world.

At twenty, Lily Harper feels too young to be at her mother's funeral, but she's just inherited a life she never asked for. Now tethered to Marcus Thorne, the billionaire real estate magnate who was her mother's husband for three brief years, she finds herself an unwilling resident of his grand, empty estate. He is a man carved from authority and wealth, a man who commands boardrooms and bends markets to his will. Yet, in the heavy silence of the house, Lily sees a different side of him—a man haunted by grief, shadowed by a jaw-dropping loneliness that mirrors her own.

Drawn together by a shared ache, their fragile bond is forged in late-night talks over bourbon and the raw, unspoken need to feel alive. But when a single, desperate kiss ignites a fire between them, they are plunged into a scandalous affair that is as thrilling as it is unthinkable. Marcus is commanding yet tender, a man who knows exactly how to unravel her, and Lily finds herself surrendering to a passion that feels both like a sanctuary and a trap.

But their secret cannot last.

When a life-altering discovery threatens to expose them, Marcus's possessive nature becomes a gilded cage, his promises of protection a tantalizing prison. He will do anything to keep her—and their secret. As Lily wrestles with a love that could be her salvation or her ruin, she must confront the ultimate question:

Can you build a family on a foundation of forbidden secrets, or will the weight of their choices destroy everything they hold dear?