He was her stepfather. Almost twice her age. Off-limits in every way… except the one that mattered. When 23 year old Aurelia St. James returns home from Paris, she isn’t expecting her world to shatter. Her emotionally distant mother has just married billionaire tycoon Alaric Whitmore, a man Aurelia once crushed on for years, and now must call "stepfather." Cold, powerful, and dangerously magnetic, Alaric is everything she shouldn’t want... and everything she can’t resist. One stolen night of passion was supposed to be their last mistake. But secrets have a way of surfacing. A pregnancy. A child. A betrayal. And years of silence that couldn’t erase the fire between them. Then, Lia is back with a son she’s sworn to protect, a past she’s tried to bury, and a billionaire who refuses to let go. But when lies unravel and enemies close in, Lia must decide if the man who broke her heart once is the only one who can save her now.