Raydar

Adopted by the Stewart family, Brianna grew up knowing she wasn’t chosen out of love, but out of usefulness. She never expected to be the main character of any story, until her sister Emily, the golden child, fled her own arranged marriage leaving Brianna to take her place. Adrian Maserati’s reputation precedes him: the brutal, cold-blooded CEO who runs the entire state. Brianna braces herself to become just another shadow in his house, a sham marriage wearing her sister’s name. Instead, she’s met by a man whose eyes light up just for her, who tells her she was always the one he wanted, whose gaze draws out emotions she never knew she had. As their marriage blooms into an unexpected slow burn, Brianna starts uncovering truths she was never meant to find: fragments of a forgotten childhood, the shape of her adoption, a husband who somehow knows her better than she knows herself. The deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes. Now she has to decide: is the man she’s falling for really in love with her, or has she just traded one cage for another? Excerpt “But.. why the pet names. You’ve never called my name out loud before.” I questioned before I could stop myself. “I thought you didn’t know my name.” “Oh.. baby,” he murmured, his thumb brushing the lone tear filling the side of my eyes. “I never called you by your name for a reason.” “As much as I love your name,” his gaze softened even more, “‘Baby’ just sounds way better. And so does the many more pet names I have on my belt. How do you like ‘my angel’?”