What would you do to save your family? It’s easy to make a snap judgment when you aren’t in the middle of hell, but desperate times call for desperate measures. I’ll do whatever it takes to save my brother . . . and I might even enjoy myself while I do it. My name is Jewell Weston. I’m twenty-four, living in a studio apartment, and struggling to survive. I quit my job to care for my ailing mother and young brother. The cost of this care cleaned out the family savings, as well as my own. Now, the state won’t give my ten-year-old brother to me because they say I’m not fit to be his provider . . . yet the nightmare foster home he’s in will destroy him if I don’t get him out. \` The tides begin to turn when I get hired at Astor Corp. If I can hold this job for three months, I’ll get my brother home, and though we miss our mother and our lives will never be the same again, we’ll at least be together. This is the answer to my broken prayers. Everything is fine until the boss walks in and I come up with a new plan. What he doesn’t realize is I’m not some weak little girl. I might have been broken in the past few years, but I don’t roll over for anyone. He might think he can control me . . . but he has no idea how to come out on the other side of hell and still be standing . . . and I definitely do. \\\\\*I’m Blake Astor, and to most people I’m known as coldhearted. Some even think I don’t have a heart. I run a billion-dollar corporation with my two brothers who think they’re amusing. What starts out as a business transaction, ends up being just what I need. I know I should keep my hands off, but there’s no chance of this happening. What even my brothers don’t know is that the cold exterior I show the world is nothing but a façade, and it won’t take much for the walls to come crashing down. My brothers and I watched our parents get brutally murdered when we were six, eight, and ten, and we haven’t healed from this, the images burned into our minds, shaping our lives. We’ve tried to forget, but it’s shaped every decision we’ve ever made from that point on. Can anyone reach our guarded hearts? No one has yet, but then I meet Jewell . . . and now I’m not sure of anything anymore.

Three Brothers, a billion-dollar business, the world at their fingertips . . . and the woman who will make them fall to their knees. What could possibly go wrong? I’m Byron Astor, and my world isn’t what most would consider perfect, but I’m satisfied with the way my life’s going. There are only two people in this world I love—my brothers, Blake and Tyler. A woman is now threatening the carefully balanced beam I’ve been holding onto, and her name is McKenzie Beaumont. McKenzie has interfered for the last time in our lives, and she’s about to feel my wrath. I’m McKenzie and haven’t always been so closed off, or cold, but I’ve learned the hard way that men are never to be trusted. If I stay ahead of the game, then I’m the true winner, even if the men think they have all the control. I’m Tyler Astor and not nearly as hard as my brothers. I was too young to remember the horrific death of my parents, the betrayal of my mother, or the weakness of my father. But I’ve watched my brothers, and the hard life they’ve led, and I’ve always been the calm in the storm for us all, bringing light to an otherwise dark world. When I watch my brothers find a ray of sun in their otherwise turbulent lives, I wonder why I can’t find the same and I go on a quest, for the first time doing it all on my own without the negative words of my brothers in my ear. But I’m about to learn that no matter how much I might want to hide from my dark past, it’s something that won’t disappear. And it’s about to catch up to me. Who will prevail in this battle of the sexes? Who has the most to lose? See the exciting conclusion to NYT best-selling author Melody Anne’s Forbidden Series. NYT's Best Selling Author Melody Anne is first in producing interactive annotated fiction books for you, her fans. She wanted to take her romance books and make them a fun experience for her fans. You can color, mark pages, enter thoughts, and immerse yourself in the story with these annotated editions. Look for the sticker on the covers to know which books have been updated in the annotated style.

Piper Covington is a glass is always full kind of girl. She loves life, loves her job, and has the best friend in the world she can lean on. She's a librarian and has dreams of getting ravished in the stacks, but doesn't need a man to make her happy . . . or at least she doesn't think she does. That's about to all change when she meets Magnus Carter. He's bold, confident, and used to getting his way. Will her sunny attitude make him smile . . . or will his magnetism make her drop to her knees? I guess we'll have to read to find out.