The Favorites · #2
My Favorite Lost Cause
My stepbrother’s estate is fading fast. My resistance to him is fading faster.
When my marriage hits rock bottom, I escape to South Carolina to help my charming disaster of a stepbrother, Charlie—aka "the douchiest man in Manhattan"—fix up the decaying Southern mansion he's just inherited.
But the house has other ideas. Doors slam, voices whisper, and something—or someone—wants us to be more than reluctant roommates. An old journal confirms it: Charlie and I seem to be mirroring every step of a love story that took place a century ago.
A doomed one.
With every soft moment and stolen glance, it gets harder to imagine ending up with anyone else. But all I’ve ever wanted is a family, and that won’t be happening with a man who once said he’d rather be murdered than father a child.
Our story was written long before we came to this house. But do we still have time to rewrite the way it ends?
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Love rarely begins in the places we expect. In The Favorites, relationships ignite in the middle of disasters, grudges, and family secrets, reminding us that the path to desire is often paved with tension and vulnerability.
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The first book drops readers onto the slopes of Kilimanjaro, where Kit Fischer is forced to climb alongside Miller West, the man she swore she would never forgive. Forced proximity, thin air, and long nights under the same sky peel back their defenses until hostility gives way to something harder to deny. In the sequel the tone shifts from mountain cliffs to a crumbling Southern mansion, where old journals, peeling wallpaper, and uneasy step-family ties create an atmosphere thick with history and unspoken longing. Here, resentment blurs into attraction, and the question is not whether they will fall, but whether they can survive the wreckage of what came before.
What makes the series resonate is the way setting and emotion intertwine. The mountain is as much an adversary as the man at your side. The mansion, with its echoes and ghosts of past mistakes, becomes a mirror for the characters’ own buried regrets. Each story lingers on the edge of forbidden attraction, the kind of love that is complicated, dangerous, and all the more compelling because of it.
For readers who crave contemporary romance with grit, longing, and characters who feel achingly real, this series offers more than just love stories. It is about learning who you are when the world strips away comfort and expectation, and finding someone who sees the parts of you you thought were unlovable.
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