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A New York Times, USA TODAY and Wall Street Journal Bestseller!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You\u2019re not supposed to want the one who torments you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When my stepbrother, Elec, came to live with us my senior year, I wasn\u2019t prepared for how much of a jerk he\u2019d be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hated that he took it out on me because he didn\u2019t want to be here.
I hated that he brought girls from our high school back to his room.
But what I hated the most was the unwanted way my body reacted to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At first, I thought all he had going for him were his rock-hard tattooed abs and chiseled face. Then, things started changing between us, and it all came to a head one night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just as quickly as he\u2019d come into my life, he was gone back to California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It had been years since I\u2019d seen Elec.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When tragedy struck our family, I\u2019d have to face him again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And holy hell, the teenager who made me crazy was now a man that drove me insane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had a feeling my heart was about to get broken again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stepbrother Dearest is a standalone novel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":748,"template":"","format":[21,19,20],"meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false},"series":[72],"trope":[66,68,63,67,69],"writtenby":[16],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"series":[{"value":72,"label":"Interconnected Standalone Series \u2013 Stepbrother Dearest"}],"trope":[{"value":66,"label":"Close Proximity"},{"value":68,"label":"Enemies to Lovers"},{"value":63,"label":"Forbidden"},{"value":67,"label":"Friends to Lovers"},{"value":69,"label":"Second Chance"}],"format":[{"value":21,"label":"Ebook"},{"value":19,"label":"Audiobook"},{"value":20,"label":"Paperback"}],"writtenby":[{"value":16,"label":"Penelope Ward"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/STEPBROTHER.jpg",309,466,false],"author_info":[],"comment_info":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/books"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"trope","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/trope?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/format?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"writtenby","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writtenby?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}