The Step Brother That Refused To Let Me Go

He was the one man I could never have. The one man I could never stop loving.

For seven years, Elise Marlowe has loved Julian Ashford in silence. He is her stepbrother, her greatest weakness, and the one person who could destroy her with a single word.

To him, she has always been the girl he protects. Never the woman who lies awake wishing he would look at her differently.

So Elise makes a decision: leave his world, bury her feelings, and finally learn to live without him.

But one dangerous night changes everything.

Secrets unravel. Jealousy awakens. And the man who once treated her like family begins looking at her in ways that make her question everything she thought she knew.

Loving Julian could destroy her. Wanting him could tear their family apart.

But what happens when the man she must never love becomes the man who refuses to let her go?