What You left in Me

THE DARK ROMANCE THAT WILL BREAK YOU IN ALL THE RIGHT WAYS…
FORBIDDEN. OBSESSIVE. DANGEROUSLY PERSONAL.

HOW DO YOU FIGHT A PULL THAT FEELS LIKE IT WAS WRITTEN IN YOUR BONES?

“I want the kind of love that wrecks me. The kind that strips away the girl I’ve been trained to be—and leaves only the woman I am when he puts his hands on me. I want his jealousy. I want his fury. I want him to look at me like I’m his sin to guard—and his secret to burn.”

Some scars don’t show on the skin.
Some are etched into...

THE DARK ROMANCE THAT WILL BREAK YOU IN ALL THE RIGHT WAYS…
FORBIDDEN. OBSESSIVE. DANGEROUSLY PERSONAL.

HOW DO YOU FIGHT A PULL THAT FEELS LIKE IT WAS WRITTEN IN YOUR BONES?

“I want the kind of love that wrecks me. The kind that strips away the girl I’ve been trained to be—and leaves only the woman I am when he puts his hands on me. I want his jealousy. I want his fury. I want him to look at me like I’m his sin to guard—and his secret to burn.”

Some scars don’t show on the skin.
Some are etched into the soul—by the one person you were never supposed to crave.
Ariane Vale thought she was immune to all of it.
The house on the lake.
The way his gaze used to slide past her… until it didn’t.
And the stepbrother whose rare attention made her feel too awake in her own skin, long before she had the words for any of it.

Now twenty-four and engaged to a flawless, successful man, Ariane comes home for summer—her parents’ anniversary celebration before her carefully arranged future with Julian begins.
But sin is already waiting at the dock.

Finn Wagner.
Her stepfather’s golden son.
The man she was never meant to look at twice.
Older, sharper, carved in all the ways the city hardens a person.
And when their eyes lock again across the family dinner table, the truth slams into her chest like a scream:
She never stopped noticing him.
She never stopped wondering.
What begins as tension turns into torment.
Stolen glances.
Unforgivable touches.
Midnight water and a grip that brands her.

The harder Ariane fights it, the more impossible it becomes to breathe around him, to pretend he isn’t the only thing that feels real in a life built to look perfect from the outside.

As carefully buried truths rise and the picture-perfect family fractures, she’s forced to choose between the future she’s been groomed to want… and the man who makes her feel like herself—even when every rule says he’s the one person she can’t have.

Because Finn never noticed the girl watching from the shadows.
But now that he’s finally seen her, he can’t look away—and obsession is the only way he knows how to touch.

What You Left in Me is a hauntingly intimate dark romance about forbidden love, fractured families, and the ache of unfinished desire. Step-siblings. Age gap. Emotional tension. For readers who love their romances twisted, taboo, and unforgettable.

18+ mature content with triggers. Not suitable for younger readers.

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