Practice Girl

At eighteen, Clara gives her heart to Ashton—only to overhear him call her “practice” for another girl. Humiliated but clear-eyed, she leaves New York for Los Angeles and cuts him off. Ashton soon realizes what he lost and comes crawling back. But Clara’s cold, powerful stepbrother, Kael Blackwood, has been waiting years for her to wake up. As old lies unravel and a childhood memory resurfaces, Clara discovers the man she trusted was never her savior—and the one she called brother may have loved her all along.