The Affair
Laura Raine Brown
Type: ARC
Genre: Romance
Word count: 110,000
Warnings:Â Graphic violence, graphic sexual content, swearing
Fresh out of prison, Jack Hayes has nowhere to go but to his half-brother, Nicholas—who demands he keep an eye on his restless wife, Marie. Trapped in a gilded cage and a crumbling marriage, Marie finds unexpected solace in Jack, and together they navigate loyalty, desire, and the dangerous pull of forbidden connection.
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Fresh out of prison, Jack Hayes has nowhere to go but to his older half-brother, Nicholas—a successful man with a crumbling home life. When Nic offers him a place to stay, there’s one condition: Jack must keep an eye on his wife, Marie.
Marie’s world is one of privilege and loneliness, built on appearances and held together by fragile threads. Beneath the surface of her polished life lies a deep dissatisfaction, a longing for something real. As Nic spirals into drink and infidelity, Marie and Jack find themselves drawn together by shared pain and quiet understanding.
What begins as reluctant companionship soon blurs into something neither of them can control—an illicit bond that could destroy them both.
A story of redemption, restraint, and forbidden connection, The Affair explores the delicate line between loyalty and desire, and what happens when doing the right thing feels impossible.
Laura Raine Brown writes stories that live in the grey—between love and betrayal, desire and destruction, silence and confession. Blending slow-burn suspense with raw emotional depth, her fiction explores the messy truths we keep hidden and the quiet moments that change everything. With a keen eye for the subtleties of human behavior, her work draws readers into emotionally charged worlds where nothing is quite as it seems.
A lifelong writer, Laura is drawn to flawed characters, complex relationships, and tension that simmers just beneath the surface. Her debut novel, The Affair, introduced readers to her signature style: intimate, unsettling, and impossible to forget. She lives in Hertfordshire with her family, a growing collection of notebooks and many stories waiting to be told.
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