Romans Exclusive Love & Histoires CEO Forbidden Love

Some summers change everything. Some men are supposed to be off-limits. Desmond Cole is both. Anna Ashford has spent nineteen years being the good daughter, the one who smiles at the right moments, laughs at the right jokes, and portends not to notice the way her father's best friend looks at her when he thinks nobody is watching. She notices. She has always noticed. But noticing is not the same as acting. And acting is not the same as falling. And falling... Falling is not something else entirely. One night at the lake house changes the rules of every game Anna thought she understood. Desmond is older, powerful, and completely wrong for her in every way that counts. He knows it. She knows it. And the lake outside her window knows every secret they are trying to keep from the man sleeping down the hall. He calls it a mistake. She calls it the most honest thing that has ever happened to her. And now neither of them can find their way back to who they were before it. The Devil's Lake is a story about wanting what you cannot have, taking what you should not touch, and discovering that the most dangerous fires are the ones that feel exactly like home. Some mistakes you survive. Some you choose, again and again, until choosing becomes the only truth left.

Five years ago, Rosalie Hayes disappeared while Adrian Mercer lay unconscious in a hospital bed. The only thing she left behind was a medical report saying they had lost their baby. Now Rosalie is back in New York with a secret Adrian can never be allowed to uncover. Her plan is simple: make her billionaire ex believe she still wants him, get what she came for, and return to Paris before he starts asking questions she cannot answer. Adrian knows she has an agenda from the moment she smiles at him. He just has no intention of letting her use him and disappear again. “I only want one night,” Rosalie tells him. Adrian’s gaze drops to her lips. “Then marry me first.” Rosalie thought she could seduce the man she left five years ago. She never expected him to demand forever.

Three years ago, Dr. Clara Bennett made a decision that changed her life forever. When a brutally injured stranger was brought into her trauma bay during a midwinter blizzard, she fought to save his life. But when armed men gathered outside the hospital doors to finish him off, Clara took a desperate risk. She faked his death on the hospital monitors, hid him from his enemies, and helped him vanish into the night. He disappeared without a trace, leaving her with a phantom memory and a heavy heart. Three years later, exhausted by endless hospital shifts and longing for stability, Clara accepts a quiet engagement to Harrison Sterling. Harrison is a smooth, respectable high-society figure in Chicago who offers her safety, peace, and a future where she no longer has to stand alone. On the night of their high-society engagement party, everything shatters. Tristan Sterling, the presumed-dead heir to the Sterling empire, walks back into the ballroom. He is alive, dark, and back to reclaim everything that was stolen from him. Clara is hit with three terrifying revelations: the stranger she saved three years ago was Tristan, the man she is about to marry is the cousin who ordered Tristan’s assassination, and Tristan has no intention of letting her walk away with another man. Caught between a safe, quiet life and a fierce, undeniable connection, Clara is pulled into a dangerous world of high-stakes betrayals and hidden truths. Harrison wants to control her, but Tristan will stop at nothing to keep her safe, even if it means tearing the city apart to do it.

The same night Roselie took the fertility seeds she had spent months searching for was the same night her husband’s adopted brother came back from prison. For seven years, Roselie had been married to Harrison without giving him the child he desperately wanted. She had endured countless treatments, humiliation, and cruel accusations, but she refused to give up on her marriage. She believed that if she could finally give Harrison a child, she could save their marriage. After months of searching, she finally found a rare fertility drug and took it on their seventh wedding anniversary, hoping that night would be the beginning of everything she had prayed for. Instead, Harrison came home with his lover. He did not care about their anniversary or the woman who had spent seven years standing by him. He dismissed Roselie and made it clear that their marriage was over. Heartbroken, Roselie never expected another man to enter her room that night. A man she believed was Harrison. A man she thought had finally come back to her. She had no idea that the man holding her that night was Sebastian. Harrison’s adopted brother. The real son of the family. The rightful heir.

When you discover that your dead mother had married a billionaire in secret, and now have a stepbrother, you realize you already know your new hot stepbrother…. every inch of him. When he discovers you’re pregnant with his baby, the secret binds you together as jealous rivals from his past close in, forcing you to navigate a spicy, sinful high profile relationship… and the discovery of a dark secret he’s been keeping under wraps, making the situation even messier. How deep will you go with this forbidden love, or will you let obstacles ruin everything for good?