BREAKING GROUND

A Reverse Harem Romance • Standalone • by Isla Wilde

Breaking Ground book cover - Reverse Harem Romance by Isla Wilde

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Pairing: MF Reverse Harem (Why Choose)
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Inferno
Type: Standalone
Tropes: Reverse Harem, Age Gap (Older Woman), Blue Collar Heroes, Voyeurism, Praise Kink, Size Difference, Dominant Hero, Revenge Romance, Power Exchange

She hired them to demolish his garden. They demolished her whole life instead.

Elena Vance is forty-six, freshly divorced, and standing in the kitchen of a house that was never hers — it was David’s house, David’s furniture, David’s life, and she was the woman who lived inside it like a bird in a cage made of white linen. When she discovers her ex-husband’s twenty-four-year-old girlfriend wearing her grandmother’s emerald necklace on Instagram, something inside her snaps. Not breaks. Snaps — like a wire under tension that’s been holding too long.

She calls a landscaping company. She wants his prize-winning rose garden gone. All of it. Tomorrow morning.

What shows up is Hardscape Solutions: Jackson Cole, thirty-two, the foreman who speaks in commands and sees everything. Marcus “Tank” Rivera, twenty-six, six-foot-five, silent as a cathedral, gentle as a man holding a bird. Leo Moran, twenty-two, golden and cocky and grinning at her through the window like he already knows what’s going to happen.

What happens is this: they catch her watching. She catches them watching back. And over the course of one sweltering weekend, the demolition expands from the garden to the living room to the bedroom to the woman herself — every wall she built, every silence she swallowed, every year she spent being small so David could feel big. They tear it all out. And what grows in the bare dirt is something nobody planted on purpose.

BREAKING GROUND is a high-heat reverse harem romance featuring an older woman who stopped being quiet, three blue-collar men who worship her like a religion, a revenge garden demolition, voyeurism that becomes participation, the filthiest tool shed scene in contemporary romance, and a love story that starts with destruction and ends with wildflowers. It contains explicit content including group scenes, exhibitionism, light dominance, praise kink, and a happily-for-now that’s growing into something permanent.

Wildflowers love disturbed earth. So, it turned out, did she.


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The necklace was the thing that did it.

Not the divorce. Not the eight months of lawyers and counter-offers and the specific, surgical cruelty of dividing a life into his and hers columns on a spreadsheet. Not the affair — God, the affair, which I’d discovered not through lipstick on a collar or a suspicious text but through a credit card statement showing a recurring charge at a boutique hotel in the Financial District, because David was the kind of man who cheated with the same organizational precision he applied to everything else. Not even the moment he’d told me, sitting at the kitchen island with his hands folded like a man delivering a quarterly earnings report, that he’d met someone and she made him feel alive, the implication being that I had been making him feel dead, that twenty years of my life had been a slow, elegant murder of his vitality.

No. It was the necklace.

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