Crossed Lines
Lana Sky
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
4.17
· Steam/Spice level: 4 of 5
Explicit open door [?]
· 26 ratings · 296 pages · Published: 31 Jan 2022

Seventeen-year-old Maryanne Mayweather wears each term like a badge of pride. Expelled from her twelfth boarding school, she lands on the doorstep of her flighty aunt Elaine and Elaine’s husband James, one more screw-up away from being made a ward of the state.
Once a successful author, the last thing James Thorne wants is to care for his wife's bratty teenage niece, especially with his marriage falling apart. When Maryanne crafts an elaborate plan to defame and destroy him, they both discover that words are more powerful than either of them could imagine. And as their relationship goes down a path neither envisioned, the consequences are swift and far-reaching.
Some lines weren’t meant to be crossed.
Tagged as:
- contemporary 6
- dark romance 6
- age gap 6
- angst 5
- cheating 5
- virgin heroine 5
- new adult 4
- forbidden love 4
- other man/woman 4
- spanking 4
- first person pov 2
- m-f romance 1
- caretaking 1
- enemies to lovers 1
- forced proximity 1
- hurt/comfort 1
- secret relationship 1
- slow burn 1
- sassy heroine 1
- tortured heroine 1
- grumpy/cold hero 1
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- content warnings
- mental illness 6
- no hea 1
- nontraditional hea 1
- mental trauma 1