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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.

Twenty-one-year-old Rose Henderson has always been her father Tom's anchor. Following her mother leaving them to focus on her career, Tom poured all his devotion into raising Rose, creating a bond built on fierce loyalty and mutual protection. But when Remy Alexandre; Tom's lifelong best friend and charismatic business partner, returns from a five-years stint running their firm to attend Tom's and Mira's wedding, the delicate stability of Rose's world fractures. Meeting Remy for the first time as adult, rose who had always had hidden affection towards Remy as a child, her feeling surfaced. Forcing her to hauled him towards her.

Serena Vale needs money, not secrets. Desperate to help her family, she accepts a live-in job at Blackwood Estate, a mansion owned by Lucien Blackwood, a man who knows things he should not. The job comes with rules. Never enter the west wing. Never wander the halls after midnight. And if you hear someone calling your name from an empty room, do not answer. Serena breaks the rules on her third night. A piano begins playing behind a locked door. A woman’s voice whispers her name. Then she discovers a photograph of herself as a girl inside Blackwood Estate. The problem? Serena has never been there. At least, that is what she remembers. Lucien knows otherwise. He knows her mother. He knows about the night Serena disappeared seventeen years ago. And worst of all, he remembers things about Serena that she has no memory of ever telling him. The more Serena investigates, the stranger the truth becomes. Her mother’s disappearance is connected to Lucien’s dead father. The forbidden west wing holds evidence of her childhood. Someone has been manipulating her memories. And the mysterious voice haunting the mansion seems determined to bring her back to a promise she made as a child. But Lucien is hiding something too. He tells Serena not to trust him. She should. Instead, she finds herself dangerously drawn to the one man who may know exactly what happened to her, and may be the only person capable of protecting her. As desire collides with suspicion, Serena must decide how much of her past to uncover. What if she never escaped Blackwood Estate in the first place? And what if Lucien isn't the devil hiding in her bedroom? What if he is the only thing keeping the real one away?