A Family Affair (EBOOK)
A Family Affair (EBOOK)
A deliciously impossible love story about falling for the one person you can’t have.
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Best-selling lesbian romance author Harper Bliss brings you a deliciously impossible love story about falling for the one person you can’t have.
Kate has been married to Kevin for ten years, but their failed journey to parenthood has left their relationship on the brink.
As Kevin tries to heal by remodeling their home, Kate finds herself living in her mother-in-law’s pool house. And having to spend a lot of time with Kevin’s spoiled sister.
Stella is preparing for a career-defining audition, but is happy to welcome her brother and his wife to the house—even though she thinks Kate doesn’t like her all that much.
With Kevin away, Kate and Stella bond over secret crushes, hot movie stars, and glitzy celebrity parties.
Until one night, after too many shots of tequila, their bonding goes a step too far…
Get your copy now and join Kate and Stella on their thrillingly unexpected journey to love!
Themes and tropes
Themes and tropes
- Forbidden love
- Celebrity romance
- BlissVerse
Chapter One Look Inside
Chapter One Look Inside
Chapter 1
Kate
Even though I designed every gorgeous detail of this place, I don’t want to live here. I’m almost forty and I’m moving into my mother-in-law’s pool house. This was not how things were meant to go.
“Do you need a hand?” Stella shouts from her lounge chair by the pool.
When I glance back at her, she hasn’t even looked up from the script she’s studying—lest anyone in this family forget she’s auditioning for a big part alongside Nora Levine in a few days.
“Here you go, babe.” Kevin hands me a bottle of water. “It’s only for a few weeks.” He squeezes my shoulder. “Our house will be ready and beautiful in no time. Trust me.”
I want to trust my husband so very badly. I want to trust him with the same passion I felt when I said ‘I do’ at our wedding. But so much has happened—and hasn’t happened—since that day.
“I’m not asking again,” Stella shouts.
“We’ve barely moved in,” I hiss at Kevin, “and already your sister’s getting on my nerves with her entitled ways.”
“Cut her some slack,” Kevin says, predictably. “She’s preparing for—”
“No need to say it.” I take a deep breath. “And I’m sorry.” None of this is Stella’s fault, although she’s still a spoiled brat, convinced, as she has been since the first day I met her, that her big break is just around the corner.
“I’m going by the house one last time to pick up the rest of our stuff.” Kevin pecks me on the cheek. “Try to get settled in.” He flashes me a grin. “Or hang out with my lovely little sister by the pool.”
I roll my eyes and sigh, but none of that makes any difference to my current situation. I glance at Stella, who is talking to herself, running lines, as though she’s all alone in her mother’s backyard.
“I hope I’m not bothering you too much,” I say, just to vent my frustration.
“You could never bother me, Kate.” Stella puts down the script and pushes herself up. Her smile looks genuine enough. She knows why we’re here. Perhaps she’s not so self-absorbed that she can’t muster a smidgen of compassion for her brother and his barren wife. “It’s great that you and Kev are staying here. The more, the merrier, now that Mom has moved Keanu in.”
I walk over and sink into the chair next to hers. “As long as you don’t expect me to make you dinner.”
Stella shakes her head. She fixes her gaze on me but remains silent. Her shirt has fallen open and all she’s wearing underneath is a skimpy bikini.
“Just a heads-up,” Stella says after a few seconds. “Keanu’s cooking us a big family dinner tonight.” Keanu is not Mary’s boyfriend’s real name, but Stella has taken to calling him that because of his resemblance to Keanu Reeves in his Point Break days, laid-back surfer vibes included. “That should be fun.” To say that Stella doesn’t approve of her mother’s choice of partner is an understatement—probably because she has to share her mom’s attention. But I say, good for Mary. And Keanu—whose real name is Nathan—is very easy on the eye.
“That sounds like fun, actually,” I say.
“Kevin’s not too crazy about him either, you know.”
“I know.” But Kevin’s mature enough to not let it show every time he gets the chance. Kevin respects his mother enough to just let her be happy with whomever she wants to be with. But that’s too much to ask from the likes of Stella, who still lives at home at twenty-eight because she claims she can’t afford her own place until she gets that ‘big break’. While LA rent is steep, Stella could move out if she really wanted to, but she’s too spoiled at Mary’s. Case in point, she’s rehearsing pool-side for her upcoming audition.
“How’s that going?” I nod at the script because I don’t feel like talking about Nathan behind his back any longer. If that means indulging Stella, then that’s what I’ll do. At least that way, I also don’t have to talk about myself, and the reason Kev and I ended up here.
“I’ve never been so nervous in my life.” Stella sounds pretty confident to me. “Not even when I had to kiss Faye Fleming.”
I try not to roll my eyes and, despite myself, giggle like a teenage girl at the mention of Faye’s name. The urge to giggle wins out because I’ve always had a soft spot for Faye Fleming and my irritating sister-in-law got to play her lesbian lover on screen—a fact she likes to remind me of every chance she gets.
If it was anyone else, I’d offer to run lines with her, but this is Stella, Kevin’s exasperating little sister, and today of all days, I can’t bring myself to do it.
“I’m sure you’ll smash it,” I say on a sigh.
“Hey, Kate.” Stella’s voice goes all mellow. “Are you okay? Today’s pretty rough, I bet.”
I run a hand through my hair and take a deep breath. “Kev just really wants to do this. To create some sort of impossible clean slate. To give us a different house to return to after…” It’s still hard to say, but Stella knows.
“That’s Kev. He needs to be busy. He needs to build something. It’s how he processes.”
I nod.
“How are you… processing?” Stella asks.
I’m not, so I just shrug.
The touch of Stella’s hand on my shoulder startles me. “Faye and Ida are hosting a cast party the day after the movie premieres next week. Would you like to be my plus-one?”
“Faye Fleming and Ida Burton?”
“Yes.” Stella flashes me a big smile. Maybe she’s not as bad as I thought. Maybe I’ve been too caught up in my own struggles to give my sister-in-law the benefit of the doubt.
“You want to take me to their party?” Incredulously, I bring a hand to my chest.
“I sure do.” She looks at me in a way that allows me to see, maybe for the first time since I met her, that Stella Flack could be a movie star in her own right. She has the kind of commercial smile that dazzles Hollywood executives, and the girl-next-door-with-a-little-extra air about her that moviegoers can’t resist.
“Hell, yes!” I shout. “Thank you so much.”
“That’s what family’s for,” Stella says. “To make each other feel better.”





That was a tough cookie.
I really struggled with this situation of Kate and Stella.
I often have a firm opinion about certain life situations and I also experience that it is difficult to continue reading the story factually and to give the character a chance.
Stella is irresistible and so is Kate, but I still judged them for over 50% of the book. Still, I enjoyed their chemistry, they went through the roof!
It's extremely hot, it's forbidden, taboo, wrong but also right!
As always, a fantastic love story from Harper Bliss, as always ;)
It's definitely not an easy romance with these two, but it's positivly intense.
Wasn't sure I was going to like this story, call me old fashioned but cheating on your spouse male or female is a big no no.
However, Harper handled this touchy subject well in her latest book.
Emotially abandoned by her husband Kev, Kate falls for her younger sister in law, Stella.
But a family will be pulled apart if they follow their feelings......
Another good book from Harper.
The author navigated a difficult topic with sensitivity. I was rooting for Kate and Stella through the upheaval and hoping they would find a way to make it work. They handled the situation with honesty and dignity. I enjoyed the story and was glad it turned out the way it did. Love is love and worth the fight.
Kevin and Kate have tried to have a baby for years with no success. Kevin’s way of coping is to completely renovate their already perfect house forcing Kate to have to move into her mother in law’s pool house. While Kev avoids Kate, Kate begins to spend time with his little sister Stella. Kate has always considered Stella to be a spoiled brat but quickly learns that Stella completely different than she’d always assumed. Stella and Kate begin to connect on a deeper level and a night of too much tequila sparks a passion neither was prepared for.
Kate and Stella are multidimensional characters who have been through a lot over the past few years. Kate’s journey to become a mother has been tortuous and her husband has cast her aside. She finds in Stella, not only a support system but a soulmate. Stella has been trying to get her big break in Hollywood, but it’s been a struggle. In Kate she, too, finds a support system and a soulmate.
Harper Bliss tells the story from both Stella and Kate’s first person points of view. This is an important aspect to the story because the reader is able to be a part of both characters’ feelings, emotions, and actions.
Falling in love with your brother’s wife is quite a taboo topic that most authors wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole but Harper Bliss took on the challenge did a wonderful job. Through Stella and Kate she was able to show that sometimes the choices we make while socially unacceptable, are right for us. Sometimes we need to choose our own happiness even though we have to hurt the ones we love most.
This is a really well written book. I loved catching up with Faye and Ida, meeting Mary and Nathan, and being a part of Kate and Stella’s journey to happiness. While cheating is a major plot point in this book, our author has done an excellent job of showing the reality of the situation and handled it with care. Well done Harper Bliss! You’ve penned another winner!!
This storyline not only dealt with several romances, but also failure and rejection and how people coped with this in different ways. Kevin and Kate were married for ten years. They were trying to get pregnant but were not successful. He decided he wanted to remodel their home and asked Kate to stay with his mother and sister until the remodeling was completed. Kevin also found it too hard to be with his wife- a constant reminder of their failure to become parents. Kate in turn deeply felt this rejection in a marriage that was, over the years, also slowly deteriorating. Initially, Kate, 38 hesitated to move into the pool house since she didn’t really like being around Kevin’s younger actress sister who lived in the main house with her mom and the mom’s much younger boyfriend. Kate also thought Stella, 27, was a spoiled and self absorbed actress. However, she soon realized that wasn’t the case at all. Kate found in Stella someone who listened to her and made her life enjoyable and exciting again.
I really didn’t know how I was going to feel about these characters since cheating was involved. But this author has a way of bringing her readers into her characters emotional mindsets to explore their struggles as well as their wants and needs. And the end result of this was wanting all the characters to find their happy ever after.
I have always enjoyed this author’s work because she is not afraid to tackle different/controversial subjects within her stories. Her characters are not perfect; they are flawed. And this makes for a more interesting and engaging read. I also liked how the title fit perfectly with the characters and their interactions with each other.
Another well written and entertaining read by this author!
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