The Candy House Rules: A Dark Romance Thriller

The Everly family owns Halloween. For twenty-five years they have also owned the lie about Noelle Marsh's mother. A genetic test says Noelle is the lost daughter of Charles Everly. The family's lawyers say she has until midnight on the thirty-first to sign. Five hundred masked guests at their legendary gala say she is the miracle of the season. Nobody says the obvious thing, which is that she seeded that match herself - three years ago, with the help of the man kneeling on her kitchen floor. Dex Cole is six and a half feet of ink and appetite and the only person alive who knows both her names. He built the lie. He would build worse. All she has to do is tell him what she wants. But there is a fixer in that house who has been watching her since September. There is a woman who has been waiting a quarter of a century for someone exactly like her. And there is a widow's walk her father went off in 2001, and nobody in that family has ever once said the word out loud. Some families deserve what walks through the door. THE CANDY HOUSE RULES is a standalone dark romance thriller with a villain couple who are not sorry, a female-dominant/male-submissive dynamic, five uses of two very specific words, and a happily ever after for the monsters. Explicit. 18+. Tropes: villain couple - female dominant, male submissive - praise kink - orgasm control and denial - touch-her-and-die devotion - revenge - found-family-that-isn't - masked ball - one temporary betrayal and a very public grovel - morally gray third man who gets nothing - HEA