One Clause Too Many

Four step-siblings. One house. One rule nobody thought would actually be hard to keep.

When their parents remarry, Marlowe Hale becomes the glue holding two families together in one very full house, color-coded chore wheels and all. Living under one roof with three near-strangers means somebody has to keep the peace. It was never going to not be her.

Beckett Rourke is the last person she should want. Charming, reckless, the kind of guy who's never let anyone close enough to expect more from him than a good time, he signed the house rules without blinking. Rule one, underlined twice: no dating each other.

It should be easy to follow. It isn't. Not when he's the only one who notices exactly how much it costs her to hold everyone else together. Not when every shared bathroom, every late-night kitchen conversation, every unguarded moment strips away a little more of the careful distance they both promised to keep.

Four step-siblings. One house. One rule nobody thought would actually be hard to keep.

When their parents remarry, Marlowe Hale becomes the glue holding two families together in one very full house, color-coded chore wheels and all. Living under one roof with three near-strangers means somebody has to keep the peace. It was never going to not be her.

Beckett Rourke is the last person she should want. Charming, reckless, the kind of guy who's never let anyone close enough to expect more from him than a good time, he signed the house rules without blinking. Rule one, underlined twice: no dating each other.

It should be easy to follow. It isn't. Not when he's the only one who notices exactly how much it costs her to hold everyone else together. Not when every shared bathroom, every late-night kitchen conversation, every unguarded moment strips away a little more of the careful distance they both promised to keep.

Breaking the rule is the easy part. Surviving what it costs their newly blended family, and figuring out if what they've found is worth the fallout, is another story entirely.