Fragile Things (Folkestone Sins, #1)

In Folkestone, the Founding Families bury their secrets. And anyone who threatens to dig them up.Stella Bradleigh has been hiding her whole life. Raised under a false name by a mother who vanished when she was fifteen, she's spent years surviving alone. Until a letter from an aunt she never knew existed changes everything.Folkestone is an enclave of old money and older sins. As the last heir to the Bradleigh family, Stella's return completes the circle of eight Founding Families who rule the town. She's supposed to take her place among them. Play the part. Keep her head down.But Poe Halliday—arrogant, magnetic, and dangerously attractive—won't let her disappear. And the harder she fights to stay hidden, the more she realizes her mother didn't run from Folkestone.She was driven out. Destroyed. Erased.Now the people who hurt her family are coming for Stella. And they won't stop until she's gone—or dead.*Content warning: This series contains steam, violence, kidnapping, drug use, trauma, and dark themes.