My Stepbrother, My Enemy

The first night without Theo was the worst. Ivy lay in their bed—her bed now, apparently—staring at the ceiling and […]

The euphoria of their Vegas elopement lasted exactly until Monday morning when they had to tell everyone. Claire was first.

“We should do something crazy,” Theo said one Friday evening, three months before the wedding. They were on the couch

The engagement announcement should have been simple—tell Claire, share the news with friends, celebrate their future. Instead, Ivy stood outside

Three months after Richard’s sentencing, Ivy and Theo had settled into something resembling normalcy. Work, apartment hunting for something bigger

The call came at two in the morning, jerking Ivy from restless sleep. Theo’s phone, buzzing insistently on the nightstand,

Morning came gray and ominous, the storm having passed but leaving behind heavy clouds and an atmosphere of dread. Ivy

The invitation arrived two days after Theo’s meeting with Chen—heavy cardstock, formal calligraphy, completely unexpected: You are cordially invited to

Two days after their fight about Leila, Ivy was making coffee in Naomi’s kitchen when she overheard something that changed

Three weeks after the Times article broke, life had settled into a strange new rhythm. The initial media frenzy had