The Patricians Series by R.G. Angel

You don’t realize when your life is about to change forever, how a simple text can tear your world apart. Esme Danvers doesn't have an easy life but at least she is loved by her widower father... or at least that's who she thought he was for 17 years. Enter William Forbes, top 10 of America's 1% and her actual father - or rather the father of Esmeralda Forbes, the girl she was born to be, the heir to a legacy she'd never known or wanted... moreYou don’t realize when your life is about to change forever, how a simple text can tear your world apart. Esme Danvers doesn't have an easy life but at least she is loved by her widower father... or at least that's who she thought he was for 17 years. Enter William Forbes, top 10 of America's 1% and her actual father - or rather the father of Esmeralda Forbes, the girl she was born to be, the heir to a legacy she'd never known or wanted. Esme’s thrown into a world of glamour and money, smoke and mirrors, hate, pain and unspoken rancor. A world with a distant, calculating and uncaring father; Archibald, a brother who hates her; and Caleb, his best friend who is as wicked and mean as he is beautiful and charismatic. Caleb, this broken boy whom she can’t seem to hate enough to keep him out of her bloodstream, a boy who doesn’t seem to hate her enough to stay away. But as the past reveals itself in ways Esme didn’t expect, she finds herself in the middle of a swirl of lies, betrayals, conspiracy and even murder, with barely anyone to watch her back. The only thing she really wants is to get back to being Esme Danvers, to find a way out before it’s too late. less

Esme had thought she was free, but a shocking revelation forces her to return to Stonewood.There she must deal with life-altering secrets and lies, as well as face the consequences of running away.Caleb is angrier than ever, hell-bent on punishing her for what he considers to be the greatest betrayal.As she delves deeper into the past with the aid of unlikely allies, even more secrets resurface, making her and everyone around her question the very foundation of their lives... moreEsme had thought she was free, but a shocking revelation forces her to return to Stonewood.There she must deal with life-altering secrets and lies, as well as face the consequences of running away.Caleb is angrier than ever, hell-bent on punishing her for what he considers to be the greatest betrayal.As she delves deeper into the past with the aid of unlikely allies, even more secrets resurface, making her and everyone around her question the very foundation of their lives.As the clock ticks and danger looms closer, what will Esme sacrifice to get to the truth? What will Caleb destroy to get his revenge? less