by Katee Robert
Part of A Touch of Taboo, book 4
First published 2021
On the night her parents die, a young woman named her meets Devan, a stranger who becomes her legal guardian before she can process what that means. He ships her off to boarding school and disappears, surfacing only once a year on her birthday to pull her back from the edge and then walk away before things go too far. For six years that pattern holds. He shows up, the tension climbs, and he sends her home. Now she is twenty-five. At midnight, her trust fund transfers to her name and Devan's legal hold on her life ends for good. She decides she wants one thing before that clock runs out: twenty-four hours alone with him. Nine years of forbidden attraction and carefully buried desire have stacked up, and she is done pretending otherwise. The emotional core of the book sits in that gap between guardian and something far more complicated. Devan has kept his distance on purpose. She has spent years resenting him for it. What happens when the structure that kept them apart disappears and neither one of them has to behave anymore.
Genres: fiction, romance, adult, adult-fiction, contemporary-romance
Vibes: emotional, forbidden-tension, intense, intimate, introspective, slow-burn
Tropes: forbidden-romance, guardian-romance, slow-burn, tension-filled-reunion
Setting: boarding-school
Period: contemporary
150 pages · Paperback · Trinkets and Tales LLC
Content warnings: sexual-content