The Wrong Kind of Mine - An MM Forbidden Stepbrother Romance #978506

The last thing Jasper Hale expected was to say yes.

His father asked. Just a month, just until the apartment situation sorts itself out. Jasper loves his father. Jasper says yes.
He regrets it approximately forty minutes after Callum Reed walks through the door.
Not because Callum is difficult. Because Callum is the specific opposite of difficult — warm, unhurried, disarmingly patient — and Jasper built his walls against exactly this. He built them preemptively, at a family dinner eight months ago, the moment he looked across a table at his father's new stepson and understood, with the precision of a man who has spent his career finding the structural truth of things, exactly what was possible and exactly what it would cost him.
Callum is a marine biologist who studies intertidal resilience — how communities rebuild after disturbance, what makes some systems survive being broken open while others don't. He has been applying this same patient, exact attention to understanding Jasper since February.
He finds the wall interesting.
He is not discouraged by the wall.
He is, if anything, more certain.

The Wrong Kind of Mine is a slow-burning, scorching MM forbidden romance about a man who organized his entire life around the prevention of loss, and the stepbrother who arrives with a duffel bag and a second hook for the bathroom and the specific unhurried patience of someone who has studied enough tidal systems to know that the conditions always change.
This is not a story about walls coming down.
It is a story about what was behind the wall all along.
Tender. Devastating. The slow burn that earns every degree.
Jasper and Callum get their HEA. No cliffhangers. No ambiguity. Two men who chose each other — across an ocean, across a family, across twenty-eight years of carefully managed distance — and kept choosing.

The Wrong Kind of Mine is a standalone novel with a complete HEA. Scorching content for 18+ readers.