The Stepbrother of Ashfield

Blake Ashfield has run the legacy families at Ashfield Academy since he was fifteen. He knows which rooms to be seen in and which secrets to keep. He knows exactly what his stepfather is. Rowan Kestrel arrives in the winter term with a forged application, a rowing record that can't be ignored, and a talent for noticing things no one at the estate wants noticed. Blake should expose her. Instead he watches her do what no one else in the house does: treat the staff like people, look his mother in the eye, and read the accounts behind Arthur Ashfield's charity. Now Blake and Rowan have the same file. Using it means burning down the only house either of them has left. A dark stepbrother high school romance for readers who like a long winter, a slow burn, and a reckoning with interest.