Erin Scott reads and writes about love and desire, but she has never experienced either. Believing in them? Not even a little.
Then one look at Rome Moreland changes everything she thought she knew about wanting.

Three months later, he’s in Harbor Hill for a year to oversee a build, and from the moment they cross paths again, the pull between them is both dangerous and sweet.

So they make a deal. He’ll teach her about sex, and she’ll learn to let go.

The rules are simple: no feelings, no promises, no lines crossed.

But lessons have a way of becoming something else.

Because Rome’s control starts to crack, and Erin’s curiosity becomes something far more than desire.

What began as wanting turns into craving something deeper, something real — each other, a family, a future neither believed in.