nightbloom06

Betrayed. Humiliated. Desired by the forbidden.

Heat Level: Steamy contemporary romance with emotional depth

Evelyn Hayes thought she could trust her fiancé… until she caught him with her pregnant stepsister. Humiliated, alone, and set up to take the fall for a cruel scheme, her world shatters.

But Roman Sinclair—her fiancé’s powerful uncle—has wanted her for years. Protective, dangerous, and harboring secrets that could destroy them both, he’s determined to claim her.

One night changes everything.

What began as forbidden desire
turns deeper. Darker. All-consuming. Roman walked away once, thinking she was too young, too pure, too off-limits.

He won’t make that mistake again.

Some men don’t just want you—they protect you, claim you, and won’t let you go.

For readers who crave steamy, forbidden romance, betrayal, and a man who doesn’t let go, this story will ignite your heart.


Excerpt:

“I’m going to get you pregnant.”

Evelyn froze.

“What?”

Roman didn’t look bothered.

His voice was calm. Controlled.

“We’ll just… make it happen. Starting now.”

Her heart slammed against her chest.

“Roman, I have plans. A career. A life—”

He pulled her closer, his gaze dark, unwavering.

“Do you have a better solution?”

She opened her mouth… then
stopped.

Because she didn’t.

“Sooner or later, you’d have to get pregnant to maintain this story. Why not now?” His gaze turned smoldering, almost hypnotic.

“But I don’t want to bring a child into a marriage based on contracts. Not now,” she whispered. “Not without love. That’s not fair to a baby.”

His thumb brushed her cheek.

“Who said there’s no love?” he murmured.

Evelyn looked at him, dazed. “What do you mean?”

“Hm?” His voice dropped to a whisper.
“Who said there’s no love, Evelyn?”

Mara Kim has never belonged anywhere… until someone decided she did.
Thrown into Isteros Academy—a world of old money, blood money, and cruel social games—she's an outsider by birth and an afterthought by design. Her sister Solyn is the school's untouchable queen and Mara is her favorite target.
Everyone expects Atreus to treat his fiancée’s scholarship sister like everyone else does—as if she doesn’t matter.
Instead, his dorm room sits directly across from hers, close enough that she can see his light go out at night. Some nights, he climbs the old maintenance trellis just to check on her. He teaches her chess. He shows up exactly when something's gone wrong—and never once asks to be thanked for it.
"Don't fall in love with one piece," he warns her, over a board neither of them treats like a game anymore. "It punishes the person who only sees half of it."
Mara doesn't understand why the boy who's supposed to make her life harder keeps quietly making it easier—not until she realizes the anonymous stranger she's been writing to every week already has a name.
His.
He doesn't know he's writing to her, either.
By the time they find out, it's too late to stop what's already happening. Far too dangerous for anyone to find out.
In an empty studio, in the middle of a rainstorm, she asks him: 'Am I the kind of girl who kisses a boy engaged to my sister?'
He doesn't answer.
So she asks: 'What are we?’
He told her not to fall in love with one piece.
She fell anyway.
And he was never far behind.