hey sry not feeling it tn. rain check?That's the text I get at eight o'clock on Valentine's Day, stood up at the best table at the restaurant in a red dress I can't afford.But really, I never cared about the blind date. I booked this table because my brother's best friend owns this restaurant. I want him to finally notice I grew up.He notices and gives me a choice.I can get in my rideshare, and we both pretend he didn't just kiss me breathle...

Five older men who should know better. Five younger women who make absolutely sure they don’t.One small town. One tangled friend group. Five forbidden first times:The Mechanic’s Forbidden Fix — Her car dies three blocks from her brother’s best friend’s shop. It’s Sunday. He’s supposed to be closed. Two years of crushing, and now they’re alone.The Welder’s Secret Spark — Her best friend’s brother—scarred, silent, fif...

Dear Lieutenant Hot Stuff: the Valentine’s Day song was a joke. The rest wasn’t. Signed, your best friend’s daughter.Singing a Valentine’s telegram at the fire station was supposed to be easy money. Then the lobster head slipped — and my dad’s best friend saw exactly who’d been serenading him.Now his terms are on the table: all of it or none of it. His house. His baby — and he wants to start tonight.I’ve wanted him since I was eighteen. There’s only...

He's thirty-four. I'm twenty-one and untouched. The treehouse never stood a chance.I climbed into his tree to save it — protest sign, three donuts, and a foolproof plan. He climbed up to talk me down.Nobody got talked down.Now the man who was supposed to demolish my childhood treehouse is teaching me everything I waited twenty-one years to learn, his beard against my sensitive skin and babygirl in my ear.And when I let slip how fert...

Temptation has never looked so good in a suit.I haven't seen my brother's best friend in years. When I see him again at my brother's wedding, I'm consumed by forbidden desire.Daniel is older, wiser, and impossible to resist with his playful winks and heated gazes. As we dance under the stars, the simmering attraction between us threatens to boil over.One moonlit tryst on the beach awakens a hunger I never knew existed. Daniel's skilled touch and filthy...

I rented a bouncy castle for my stream. I didn't expect the man delivering it to wreck me for everyone else.Trevor's has been my secret fantasy for two years—older, and completely off-limits as my dad's best friend. When he shows up in my backyard to deliver a bouncy castle I rented, I have a very professional plan. I'm going to bounce for my subs and collect my tips.The plan lasts approximately four minutes.Because when he agrees to hold the camera...

She thought she'd find one nice guy in town. Fate doubled the order.I drove four hundred miles to my late grandmother's lake cabin with no degree, no plan, and one stubborn secret—at twenty-one, I've never been touched and still waiting for my life to start.Then two trucks pull up at dawn.Theo is the lean, silver-templed ranger with a smile that undoes me. Mose is the quiet carpenter who looks at me like he already knows I'm his. They were Grandma's...

He's been watching her for two years. She's been hiding. Not anymore.I've spent two years dressing around my body, standing behind people in photos, and avoiding the one man who makes my heart race.He’s my brother’s best friend and fifteen years older than me. Off-limits in every way that matters.Then a mix-up at my brother’s wedding puts us in the same suite, and Mason unzips my dress—and everything I've been hiding spills out along with the truth....

A villa mix-up becomes an irresistible temptationI never expected to share a one-bed Tuscan villa with my friend's devastatingly handsome uncle. When a booking error forces us together, Sean's salt-and-pepper hair and commanding presence make it impossible to focus on anything else.He's older, experienced, and determined to keep his distance…it's time to change his mind.Autumn Bridesmaid Age Gap Love is a spicy short story of forbidden lust feat...

Good girls wait to be noticed. These five have been watching, planning, and scheming.Five forbidden stories. Five off-limits older men. Zero self-control.A sizzling collection of standalone age-gap quickies where determined younger women stop waiting for permission and go after the men they absolutely shouldn't want - her best friend's dad, her ex's dad, her boss, her brother's best friend, and the smoking hot neighbor next door.Featuring dominant o...

I broke his bed frame. Then I broke his control.My dorm is under renovation and now I'm crashing in the spare room of a six-foot-four carpenter who smells like cedar and makes me grip the counter every time he reaches for the top shelf. He barely talks. He jaw-clenches instead. I've been cataloguing every single one.There are eighteen years between us and I live under his roof.None of that stops me from dropping down on his workshop floor and asking...

My outlet exploded and now the hottest electrician in the county is in my house.He's sixteen years older, built like a fantasy, and I've been obsessing over those forearms since I met him. I know it's a bad idea, but I still drop my sundress and dare him to be my first.Turns out my electrician knows exactly how to handle a live wire—on my thrift-store couch, and with a fruit leather snack I'm never going to look at the same way again.And when his di...