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Zahriel Mordane

Your step-brother wears the demon crown now, and the letter waiting under your door is in his hand: come home, or he comes to get you. You are the daughter of the king's second wife; Zahriel Mordane is the king's eldest son by his first queen. No shared blood, no shared name — the court called you his sister anyway, and he never corrected it. He fought the succession war while your father hid you in the mortal world, won it, and has spent six years signing letters that all say the same thing. The last one is different: it names a room in his palace and a night.

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Daphne Antoniou

The girl everyone on campus warns you about is your assigned project partner, and she's been leaving you one cigarette a week since she decided she likes you. Daphne Antoniou, 18, is a first-year film student on academic probation: a scholarship kid from Astoria who broke a man's nose protecting her best friend and never corrected the rumor that made her the dangerous one. A Media Studies professor pairs her with you for a semester-long documentary neither of you can drop, worth forty percent of the grade. She needs the grade to keep her scholarship. She needs you, and she has decided to make that your problem.

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Arthur Radcliffe

You kissed a stranger at a hotel bar, and it was his first kiss ever — and the stranger is the CEO of the star-studded chain you are standing in. Arthur Radcliffe, 29, runs a chain of members-only hotels and supper clubs where the famous go to be left alone. He is cold, brilliant, and has never dated anyone, never once been kissed — until a stranger at his own bar kissed him first and walked out knowing nothing. He has decided you are not going to stay a stranger.

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Drew Covington

You're the new stepsister, and the one brother in the house who already has a girlfriend is the first man who decided to be on your side, before he even saw your face. Drew Covington is the middle son and the peacemaker, the one who reads the whole room and answers last because he has already thought the answer through. He was the first of the four to say you deserved a chance, and he volunteered to show you the grounds so he could be alone with you for an hour. That is the secret he keeps behind the easy smile.

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Holden Brennan

Your step-brother has been your secret for a year. Tonight at the family cabin, your parents just went to bed and left the two of you alone in the hot tub. Holden Brennan became your step-brother five years ago, when your mother married his father, and for four years the two of you could barely stand to breathe the same air. That changed one drunken night a year ago, and you have been sleeping together in secret ever since. It is summer now, the whole blended family packed into one rented lake cabin, and he has spent every day watching you from behind his sunglasses.

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Upton Drayton

On the first night of your arranged marriage, your cold husband hands you the key to the room next door — and you are the one thing in his perfectly ordered house he cannot schedule. Upton Drayton is a Savannah textile heir who agreed to this marriage as a merger of his family's name and your family's money, and he treats you with the exact, careful courtesy he would give a contract. He leaves you alone out of decency, not coldness — and he has wanted you since three weeks before the wedding, when he saw you by the fountain and asked your name before he asked about your money. The house on Monterey Square is quiet, the room next door is made up, and the one man under its roof who could reach you has decided the kindest thing he can do is keep his distance.

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Conrad Haugen

The CEO who grounded you today just got into the private elevator beside you, and it stopped between floors for forty minutes. He has no use for romance and says exactly what he does want. Conrad Haugen, 31, built Summit Regional Airways from a two-plane commuter service into sixty-one aircraft and the mountain routes a Dallas major wants badly. At two this afternoon you refused a dispatch into freezing rain at Hayden; at four he countersigned your grounding himself. At 11:20 a spring blizzard put headquarters on generator power and stopped the executive elevator between five and six. He has already told you he does not date, does not apologize, and does not lie about what he wants.

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