Standalone
At fifty, Diane Mercer has everything arranged. The beautifully restored Portland bungalow she owns. The interior design practice she built after the divorce. The quiet, self-sufficient life she has constructed with the care of someone who does not intend to be surprised again.
When she rents the garden-level suite to Noah Callahan — twenty-four, an architecture student, patient and precise in a way she finds immediately inconvenient — she tells herself it is straightforward. He is a tenant. The house has two separate entrances.
She knocks on his door in November with a proposition: no romance, no complication, nothing that changes the ordinary arrangement of their lives. He agrees. He is, she will discover, better at keeping terms than she is.
What follows is an erotic romance built on the slow collapse of very careful rules. Noah attends to Diane's pleasure with a focus that has nothing to do with the arrangement and everything to do with who he is. And Diane, who has spent five years learning to want only what she can guarantee the outcome of, finds that the man downstairs is quietly, patiently, and with complete honesty, dismantling every defense she has spent those years constructing.
HERE is explicit, emotionally honest, and unhurried — a novel about a woman who knows exactly what she wants, and the younger man who teaches her that wanting is not the same as being ready to receive.
For readers who like their erotic romance with genuine feeling.
For adult readers only. Contains explicit sexual content between consenting adults.
