The Stepbrother She Left Behind

Fern Halloway left Wren House at seventeen with her stepbrother's coat and no intention of returning. Now she is a forensic accountant, and she is back — as a consultant, on paper, to audit the estate the foundation wants to buy from the family. Callum Halloway is the only person left in the house. He has kept his mother's paintings, her piano, her library, and one room Fern has never seen. He is not surprised that she came. He sent the coat, after all. Eleven years ago he told the police a lie to keep her name out of it. He has been paying for the lie ever since, one quiet sale at a time. Fern is here to file the truth. All of it. Including hers. A dark gothic stepbrother romance of closed rooms, open ledgers, and a coat that came back.