by Katee Robert
First published 2020
The holiday vacation was supposed to be simple. Instead, Derek tells his wife he has something unconventional planned for his best friend Grayson. She is the gift. One night is the agreement, a clear boundary with a clean end point. It does not end there. One night stretches into two, then three, then swallows the whole vacation whole. No rulebook governs what the three of them build together. They write the terms themselves as they go. What surprises all of them is not the arrangement but what grows inside it. Derek and Grayson, best friends long before any of this, find themselves closer than years of friendship had made them. And she stands at the center of that shift, watching two men reconfigure around her. Katee Robert keeps the story intimate and propulsive, grounded in physical specificity and the emotional weight of boundaries chosen rather than imposed. The naughty-list promise in the title is real, but the story earns something warmer underneath the heat.
Genres: fiction, romance, adult, adult-fiction, erotica, contemporary-romance
Vibes: boundary-exploring, emotionally-complex, intimate, propulsive, sensual
Tropes: established-relationship, friends-to-lovers, why-choose
Period: holiday-vacation
150 pages · Paperback · Trinkets and Tales LLC
Content warnings: explicit-sexual-content