THE SISTER I BROUGHT HOME Evelyn Hart has always believed that loyalty is one of the greatest gifts a person can give. She built her life from nothing, a successful pastry business, a beautiful home, and a marriage to Nathan Cole, the man she believed was the love of her life. When her closest friend, Sienna Blake, loses everything and has nowhere to turn, Evelyn doesn't hesitate to open her home to her. She gives Sienna a place to stay, a job in her company, and the kind of trust most people would never receive. Evelyn thinks she is saving her best friend. She doesn't know she is bringing the person who will destroy her life through her front door. Slowly, everything begins to change. Money disappears from Evelyn's company. Important documents go missing. Nathan becomes distant. Sienna becomes increasingly involved in Evelyn's marriage and business, while always maintaining the innocent image of the grateful friend Evelyn believes her to be. Then Evelyn discovers the truth. Her husband has been secretly involved with Sienna. Heartbroken and humiliated, Evelyn decides to uncover how long the betrayal has been going on. But what she discovers is far more disturbing than an affair. Someone has been deliberately destroying her business. Someone has been manipulating her marriage. And someone has been hiding the truth about a tragedy from Evelyn's past. Just when Evelyn believes she has lost everything, she crosses paths with Adrian Blackwood. Adrian is everything Evelyn doesn't expect, a powerful businessman with a guarded heart, a sharp mind, and a reputation for never getting involved in other people's problems. Yet for reasons Evelyn cannot understand, Adrian chooses to help her. He offers her a chance to rebuild her business. He protects her when the people she trusted turn against her. And when everyone else tells her that she is imagining things, Adrian is the one person who believes her. But Evelyn refuses to trust him. After all, the last man she trusted destroyed her. As Adrian helps Evelyn investigate the people behind her downfall, an unexpected bond begins to form between them. What begins as an uneasy alliance slowly becomes friendship. Friendship becomes trust. And trust eventually becomes a love neither of them expected. But Adrian has a secret of his own. He knows something about Evelyn's past. Something connected to the night Evelyn lost her first child. Something he has been keeping from her. Then Evelyn receives an anonymous message: “You think Sienna is the reason you lost your child. Ask Nathan what really happened that night.” Suddenly, Evelyn realizes that the betrayal didn't begin when Sienna entered her home. It began years ago. As Evelyn uncovers one secret after another, she discovers that the people she called family may have been working together to destroy her and that the man who has become her greatest source of strength may be holding the key to the darkest secret of all. Evelyn must choose between the painful truth and the comfortable lies she has believed for years. And Adrian must decide whether protecting the woman he has fallen in love with is worth exposing a secret that could destroy them both. Because sometimes, the person who saves you from your darkest season is the very person who was destined to change your life forever. And sometimes… the greatest love story begins after betrayal.