The Blackthorn Saga

Ruinous Secrets (2024)  

Blackthorn Saga Book 4

Seth loudly resents the concept of biology choosing one’s mate. Determined never to fall for the “fated Korrena” trap, he picks fights and carelessly sleeps around to hide from the truth: he’s  secretly  in love with his best friend’s little sister. But Riley believes so firmly in the poetic nonsense of Korrena pairs that she has “saved herself” for her future pair. When her prince shows up, it will break his heart to lose her—so he’ll take her in whatever way he can have her.

Riley has always relied on Seth to keep her on task and look out for her. He makes her feel safe. But a shift in his attitude lately has her off-balance. There’s that new scent he wears that no one notices but her, and the subtext in his teasing, especially when they’re alone. What she wouldn’t give for Seth to be her Korrena… but he doesn’t believe in that, so she hides her feelings. She’ll take him in whatever way she can have him.

She wishes he wouldn’t see her as a child. He hasn’t seen his “Firecracker” as a child in a long time.
 

The slow drag of Seth’s tongue over the cut on her finger obliterated thought. Seth-freaking-Emerson, her childhood friend who had always been like a big brother to her, was tasting her blood…