(Hate Me is Part 2 of The Summer of Secrets Series. It is a 30k-word novella, and can be read as a complete standalone, or as the second part of the interconnected series.) As the second of three sisters, Eloise "Lucy" Bordeau was never known for breaking the rules. And since taking over the family business while her sisters ran from small-town living and escaped to the city, rules have become her life. Until a stranger walks into her bookstore and gives her a night that rivals even the steamiest of romance novels. Only, Ezra James isn't a stranger. He's the man trying to buy the struggling Bordeau Books from underneath her. And now that he's had a taste of her, he'll do anything to keep her underneath him.