Scandalous
READING AGE 18+
Nathan Kingston is a brilliant but broken British teacher who gave up on his dreams to take a job at one of California's most prestigious academies. Trapped in a loveless marriage to a woman who resents him, he expects nothing from Crestwood Academy — until he meets Shae Madison. She's seventeen, an outsider, and sharper than anyone gives her credit for. Two people carrying the same kind of quiet loneliness. Two people who know they should stay away from each other. A slow burn that was never supposed to happen — and can't be stopped.
Forbidden. Complicated. Inevitable.
Unfold
Christmas in the mansion was quiet in the specific, large-house way of a space designed for more people than were currently in it.
Shae had known this would be the case and had not particularly minded it in advance — the holidays had not carried the specific, weighted expectation of warmth and gathering for her since she was six yea……
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