Tangled Up with My Insufferable Stepbrother
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At the foot of the cinder hill, she first met Vincent Hawthorne. His shirt cuffs were neatly fastened, his wrists clean, untouched by coal dust. He didn't belong here — a boy holding a camera up to a heap of rubble no one in that town would look at twice. The soft click of the shutter undid her more than any conversation could have.
Sixteen-year-old Ember was trapped in coal-dusted Black Creek. She solved math problems for cash, saving every dollar to take her mother away from their drafty shack. Fate played a cruel trick on her. After her mother married Hawthorne, Ember moved into the Hawthorne house. And the boy who messed with her feelings was now — her legal stepbrother.
Vincent made it clear he didn't want her there. He needled her, tested her, did everything short of putting her bags back on the bus. Hostility grew by the day, yet her eyes kept drifting toward him against her will.
After all this back and forth, would they stay enemies, learn to be family, or fall into something forbidden and burning?
Sixteen-year-old Ember was trapped in coal-dusted Black Creek. She solved math problems for cash, saving every dollar to take her mother away from their drafty shack. Fate played a cruel trick on her. After her mother married Hawthorne, Ember moved into the Hawthorne house. And the boy who messed with her feelings was now — her legal stepbrother.
Vincent made it clear he didn't want her there. He needled her, tested her, did everything short of putting her bags back on the bus. Hostility grew by the day, yet her eyes kept drifting toward him against her will.
After all this back and forth, would they stay enemies, learn to be family, or fall into something forbidden and burning?

















































