Step-Silent Scream

Possessive Stepbrother Dark Romance

By: Lyra Cross

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

I chase the dead because the living hurt too much to hold. But my new stepbrother is about to prove he's the only monster I should be running from.

Blackwood Asylum is a tomb of forgotten screams — a crumbling Victorian labyrinth where the walls breathe and the shadows don't move the way they should. It's also my family's newest investment, and the perfect location for my paranormal web series.
I came here to prove I'm more than the broken girl who flinches at her own shadow.

I wasn't expecting him.

Asher Blackwood is cold, methodical, and built like a wall between himself and the rest of the human race. He's been haunting this asylum longer than the dead have, a brutal guardian who treats every living soul like a contamination. To him, human touch is static noise he can't stand. The feeling is mutual. My skin rejects contact the way his does.

We're two people wired to be alone.

Then the storm hits. The iron doors lock. The access roads flood. And when the temperature plummets and something in the Solitary Wing starts whispering my name, my arrogant, infuriating stepbrother stops keeping his distance.

He becomes the darkness between me and whatever lurks in it.

He watches my every breath. He commands my every move. And when my phobia spirals and I'm shaking apart, Asher discovers something that ruins us both: his hands are the only ones my body has ever accepted.

Now the man who refuses to be touched is obsessed with claiming every inch of me; slow, rough, and devastating. Something in this asylum wants to pull me under. But Asher has already decided that nothing gets to break me but him.

Step-Silent Scream is a standalone dark romance in the Midnight Kin universe featuring an obsessively possessive stepbrother hero, a touch-starved ghost-hunting heroine, forced proximity in a haunted asylum, dual first times, and a guaranteed happily-ever-after. No cheating, no love triangles, no cliffhanger.