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A dark, taboo-adjacent romance from Penelope Douglas exploring a blended-family dynamic under one roof. When Tenn Hardin's father remarries, three new stepsiblings move into his family's isolated lake house, including Beau Hardin, a brooding artist with a dark past who Tenn finds herself irresistibly, dangerously drawn to. Trapped together over a summer with tangled histories and no easy way to walk away from what's growing between them, this is Douglas at her most intense: forbidden attraction, slow-burn tension, and morally complicated family dynamics that push right up against genre boundaries.