His Relentless Angel by May Alder

Bailey

I’ve been in love with my dad’s best friend, Isaiah, since I was thirteen years old, which is when I started planning our future together—down to the song we would dance to at our wedding and the paint color of our bedroom walls. After five years of Isaiah pushing me away and breaking my heart, I hoped he would sweep me into his arms when I turned eighteen and confess he was secretly in love with me…Instead, I received a handwritten letter from the love of my life that shattered every dream I had of the future.

Isaiah

My best friend, Sherman, and his family meant as much to me as my own, though I kept my distance from Sherman’s young daughter, Bailey. Everyone expected her to grow out of her crush on me and move on, but she only grew more obsessed as time passed. After making a mistake that I deeply regretted when she came to me on the night of her eighteenth birthday, I knew what I had to do.

In the almost four years since I’d last seen Bailey, I deluded myself into thinking she couldn’t possibly be as beautiful as I remembered. I was so wrong. I tried to push her away, just as I always did, but the tempting little angel’s schemes to get my attention finally worked…and now, she’s not the only one obsessed.