The Heir I Shouldn’t Want

Nineteen-year-old Mia Vale comes from a poor neighborhood and enters the prestigious St. Aurelia Academy on a scholarship. After her mother remarries, she is forced to move into the Blackwood family home, becoming their stepdaughter. On her very first day, she encounters the most dangerous man in the academy—Asher Blackwood. Cold, arrogant, and sharp-tongued, he is Blackwood's sole heir and her nominal stepbrother. Mia hopes to endure her final year to escape this cage of money, but Asher always appears when she is at her most vulnerable. He will hurt her with his sharp words, and he will also protect her coldly when everyone else humiliates her; he warns her not to touch Blackwood's secrets, yet he repeatedly pulls her back from danger. Meanwhile, the truth behind the factory explosion three years ago, Mia's father, gradually comes to light, with all clues pointing to the Blackwood family. She suspects Asher is the murderer, but discovers that he may be the only one who tried to save her father back then. Stepbrother, suspect, protector, son of an enemy. Mia knows she shouldn't get close to him, yet she becomes increasingly entangled in the pull between truth and ambiguity.