Online Love, Offline Stepbrother

Stepbrother revealed as online boyfriend; girl flees but gets caught.

Five years after her mother joins the Sterling crime family, the narrator endures icy silence from arrogant stepbrother Louis. Spotting a birthmark on him identical to her online boyfriend Rowan's, she realizes the man who sent intimate messages for two years is the same person she just dumped with a lie about failing Harvard admission. Panicked, she packs to escape, but Louis intercepts her, blocking the exit with a low, menacing laugh and a threat that he knows her deception.

• romance
• mafia
• hidden identity
• drama

1. Mother married into Sterling crime family
2. Birthmark links stepbrother Louis to online boyfriend Rowan
3. Narrator lied about Harvard rejection to break up with Rowan

People who like hidden-identity romance with crime-family tension and a cat-and-mouse confrontation.