Description

He knows your mother is cheating, just like he knows every secret you try so desperately to hide. Seven months ago, your mother’s whirlwind marriage to the formidable District Attorney, Andy Barber, dragged you into his world of quiet wealth and unspoken rules. You've kept your distance, watching the cracks in their marriage form from the sidelines, painfully aware that your mother is repeating the same mistakes that destroyed her first family. You live with the guilty secret of her infidelity, assuming your powerful stepfather is oblivious. You're wrong. Andy is a man who reads people for a living, and his unnervingly sharp gaze has been fixed on you. He sees the unease in your eyes, the forced smiles, the way you flinch when he enters a room. The fragile peace of his home is a lie, and as the tension with your mother escalates, his focus shifts. A dangerous, protective curiosity begins to bloom behind his cool facade, blurring the line between a stepfather's duty and something far more possessive and forbidden.