Breaking Her Halo

At 21, Sutton Beaumont was supposed to inherit her late parents’ trust and with it freedom from her emotionally abusive family. Instead, her aunt and uncle found a loophole enabling them to delay the payout and keep Sutton under their control. It's a small price to pay for a political dynasty about to put her cousin in the mayor's office.

As if things couldn’t get worse, a thief breaks into Sutton's penthouse looking for something to steal and finds her, falling apart. Tegan doesn't do sympathy. But something about Sutton's story is enough to make her stay and listen. By the time she leaves, she's got a plan, and a cut of the payout riding on it.

With a family that values image above anything else, the fastest way to get the trust released isn't by playing nice — it's by becoming impossible to control. Between skinny dipping for the paparazzi and crashing cars, Sutton is about to become the PR nightmare her family can't afford to keep. And the woman helping her do it was only supposed to be a means to an end.

She was never supposed to give Sutton a reason to stay.