Novels by Inkwithasecret

Damien Voss has spent his entire life fulfilling a role he never chose: heir to an empire, dutiful son, fiancé to Anastasia Brooke since they were fifteen. Their engagement was never about love it was a merger sealed in a childhood promise between two ruthless families but it works. They respect each other, understand each other, and keep up appearances well enough that no one has ever thought to question it. It’s enough, or it was, until an artist named Lucas Carter walks into their lives to paint their engagement portrait and walks out of a bathroom door at exactly the wrong or right moment. What begins as an accident becomes an obsession neither man can outrun. Damien buries his attraction under anger and denial. But desire has a way of resurfacing anyway, and when the two finally give in, Damien claims Lucas fully. stolen evenings, a version of himself he’s never let anyone see. As the affair deepens, Anastasia begins to notice the distance long before she has proof of why. With the engagement party closing in, Damien is forced to face what he’s spent his whole life avoiding: he doesn’t want the wedding, the arrangement, or the life that was chosen for him before he was old enough to have an opinion. But unraveling fifteen years of promises between two powerful families was never going to be simple and when the truth comes out, it won’t just break hearts. It will ignite a war between empires, threaten to destroy both families’ fortunes, and force Damien to decide what kind of man he’s willing to become. A story of forbidden desire, dynastic betrayal, and the cost of choosing yourself when everyone else has already decided who you’re supposed to be.

Prescott Zane is the kind of man women ruin themselves for rich, ruthless, and addicted to no strings pleasure. He fucks who he wants, when he wants, and never looks back. Commitment is a joke Feelings are a weakness. Then his father’s sudden marriage forces the one woman who openly despises him into his house… and under him at work. Aurora Martins is curvy, stubborn, and fiercely independent. She sees straight through spoiled rich boys like Prescott and wants nothing to do with his arrogant smirks or filthy reputation. The last thing she needs is to become his stepsister or his assistant. But forced to live under the same roof and become step siblings the hatred turns into hot steamy chemistry a forbidden love neither could neither and they can’t keep their hands off each other with Prescott giving up his old live of no commitment and choosing to fuck and love his chubby step sister.

Daisy Reed gave up everything for Seth Ford her career, her ambition, her sense of self to become the perfect wife. On their third anniversary, she comes home early and finds him with her stepsister Beth. In the confrontation that follows, cornered on the stairs, she’s shoved. She doesn’t survive the fall. She wakes up five years earlier, twenty-three years old, on the morning of a choice she made without thinking twice the first time. This time, she thinks twice. She turns down the job Seth wants her to take. She keeps the strategy and analytics career she once buried for him. And when Seth’s biggest rival, Harvey Carlos, offers her a position at Carlos Holdings, she takes it not for revenge, not yet, just to never be small again. She doesn’t know Harvey has secrets of his own: he loved her in silence for years, said nothing, and died in a reckless accident the night he learned she was gone. He doesn’t know why the new hire unsettles him so completely, or why grief he’s never earned keeps surfacing when she’s near. As Daisy rebuilds herself into someone Seth can no longer control and Beth can no longer overshadow, old resentments curdle into open war. Beth, desperate to reclaim the spotlight, makes a play for Harvey and is publicly, humiliatingly rejected, a wound that pushes her and Seth toward something far more dangerous than gossip. Somewhere between boardrooms and unspoken history, Daisy and Harvey are drawn together despite everything working against it. But the truth neither of them has said aloud that they’ve both already died once for this is coming, and it will force them to decide if a love that’s already cost one life is worth risking.