First published 2022
She came with cash and a proposition. When the protagonist approaches Crew Taylor, her brother's former best friend, she has one request and is ready to negotiate. Crew is broad-shouldered, hazel-eyed, and permanently irritable, and that is exactly the problem. She has decided he is the right man for the job, and the job is teaching her everything she does not yet know about being with a man. Crew says no. He says it clearly and with some heat behind it. She expected that. So she comes back with a deal he cannot easily walk away from, structured like a contract, lesson by lesson, night after night. The tension lives in the gap between what Crew refuses to admit and what his actions keep giving away. He is bossy and broody and experienced in ways she is not, and the closer they get, the harder it becomes to treat the arrangement as purely transactional. The real question is not whether he will finally say yes. It is what happens to both of them once he does.
Genres: fiction, romance, adult, adult-fiction, contemporary-romance
Vibes: emotional, intimate, slow-burn, steamy, tension-filled
Tropes: brooding-love-interest, fake-dating, forced-proximity, friends-to-lovers
476 pages · Paperback · MB Publishing
Content warnings: explicit-sexual-content