Forbidden Foundation

<p>Sophia Rossi thought she was just coming home to start her life. But the sprawling glass house in Coatesville feels more like a museum than a home and she's an outsider in her own mother's perfect new world. Her only point of connection is the brooding handsome older man living in the guesthouse-a man with a haunted past and eyes that see her more clearly than anyone.</p><p>Ryan Cole is a man on the edge. At thirty-eight his career is in ruins his marriage is over and he's living on the charity of his best friend Liam. His plan is simple: keep his head down rebuild his life and stay away from trouble. But trouble arrives in the form of Sophia-Liam's soon-to-be stepdaughter. She's too young too brilliant and too close to the life he just destroyed. She is completely off-limits.</p><p>It begins with a shared love for buildings with soul and a conversation in the dark during a power outage. In a world of suffocating wealth and secrets they find in each other a breathtaking dangerous clarity. But every stolen glance is a risk. Every secret touch is a betrayal.</p><p>When a weekend alone transforms their simmering tension into an uncontrollable fire their secret world is born full of whispered confessions and desperate hidden passion. Living a lie under the watchful eyes of the two people they can't bear to hurt their fragile bubble is a paradise on the verge of collapse.</p><p>And when Ryan's past comes storming back threatening to expose them they'll have to face the consequences of their impossible love. Can a connection born in the shadows survive the harsh light of day or will the truth burn everything they love to the ground?</p>