Emma Sullivan left Riverside Falls swearing she'd never come back. She returns eight weeks pregnant, with no plan beyond the positive test in her bag.

The complication has a name: Garrett Carver. One night with him before she ran, and now the whole town is doing the math — because everyone remembers that Emma dated his brother all through high school. In a place this small, the gossip travels faster than she can unpack.

Garrett isn't the brother anyone expected her to come home for. He's the quiet one, the steady one, the one who's spent his whole life feeling like second choice on his own family's land. He wants Emma. He wants the baby. He's terrified she'll bolt the moment things get hard, because that's exactly what she did last time.

Then a summer storm takes out her rental and leaves her with nowhere to go but Garrett's cabin. Close quarters. Shared mornings. A due date neither of them can outrun.

Staying means trusting a man she barely let herself want. Leaving means doing to her child what was done to her. And Emma has never once chosen to stay.

The Wrong Brother is a steamy, surprise-pregnancy small-town romance with a forced-proximity slow burn, a steady second-choice hero who's anything but, and a hard-won happily ever after. A complete standalone.

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