Step Brutal

A Dark Bully Romance

De: Marie Jakes

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

She wanted to understand art. He decided to make her his masterpiece.
Ivy Sterling is an art history major whose carefully constructed world is shattered when her new stepbrother, the brilliant and cruel painter Caleb Dunn, publicly dismisses her analysis as shallow and emotionally vacant.
Forced to live together in their parents’ sprawling loft, Caleb’s psychological torment escalates. He sees Ivy’s academic poise as a canvas he wants to destroy and repaint. Her desperation to save her failing thesis becomes his ultimate leverage.
He makes her a dark proposition. He will mentor her, give her the raw insight she craves, but the price is her complete submission. In his studio, every lesson is a violation, every touch a calculated stroke of control designed to break her down.
As Caleb molds her into his perfect, broken subject, the lines between torment and tenderness blur into a dangerous obsession. Ivy’s mind sharpens, but her body learns a new, dark language of desire, forcing her to decide if finding her voice is worth losing herself to his canvas of control.
This standalone book has themes of stepbrother romance, bully romance, forced proximity, dark academia, power exchange, Dom/sub, enemies to lovers, praise/degradation, art as obsession, and dark hurt/comfort.