Rival

Rival
by Penelope Douglas

A couple years ago Madoc and Fallon were together.  Sorta.  They were never public, but were sleeping together behind closed doors.  Something happens and Fallon goes away to boarding school for two years.  Now she is back and old feelings are resurfacing.

It's another book about toxic relationships and forbidden romances.  Forbidden as in they are stepbrother and stepsister, so not related by blood, but they are supposed to be siblings, not lovers.  It's also another toxic relationship, they both don't treat the other one as they should; they both just kinda treat the other one like dirt, and just not communicating to the other one, including something they should have really both have known about.

There is a bit of a double standard.  Madoc is sleeping around with multiple other women and nobody really bats an eye.  But then any of the girls that are sleeping around are considered sluts. 

It was another good story by Penelope Douglas.  If you like Sylvia Day, or maybe 50 Shades of Grey, you will probably like this one.  Some of the parts are pretty steamy.