STEPBROTHER'S FORBIDDEN POOL HOUSE SECRET: HATE IGNITES BRUTAL, ADDICTIVE LUST by Cassandra Mile

When college freshman Ava Harper comes home for summer break, the last thing she expects is Jax Ryder—her cocky, tattooed new stepbrother—lounging shirtless by the family pool, gray eyes stripping her bare with one arrogant smirk.

She hates him on sight. He looks at her like she’s already his.

What starts as explosive loathing quickly ignites into something darker, hotter, and utterly forbidden. Left alone in the house, years of tension erupt in the dim glow of the pool house: brutal kisses against rough stucco, risky oral under the dinner table while their parents chat above, savage shower sex that leaves marks, and relentless all-night passion that wrecks every surface—until one near-discovery pushes them to the edge.

Hate turns to obsession. Defiance turns to surrender.

By summer’s end, Ava and Jax know one undeniable truth: what burns between them is too addictive to ever let go.

A scorching, high-heat forbidden stepbrother romance packed with intense hate-to-lust encounters, raw emotion, and a secret neither can resist.