by Vi Keeland
Part of The Law of Opposites Attract, book 4
First published 2024
Connor is the last of his friends still unattached, and he has never felt the urgency to change that. Then he meets Alex at Ryan's House, the nonprofit he founded to build housing near hospitals. She shows up as a weekend volunteer, and Connor realizes she is the same person he had been sparring with over email for weeks. He had assumed Alex was a man. She is not. She is sharp, funny, and impossible to stop thinking about. They spend their weekends side by side at construction sites during the day and sharing dinners at the hotel at night. The connection is real and it moves fast. Alex feels it too, but she keeps pumping the brakes. Her reason is simple: Connor is too young for her, and she refuses to let it go anywhere. Connor thinks the age gap is an excuse. He watches the way she looks at him and knows she does not fully believe her own argument. He falls anyway, hard and without much caution. The walls she built start to come down slowly. Then something happens that makes the age difference look like a minor inconvenience by comparison. Rule one of dating an older woman who insists it cannot work: do not fall in love.
Genres: romance, contemporary, adult, adult-fiction, contemporary-romance
Vibes: emotional, heartfelt, intimate, romantic, tension-filled
Tropes: age-gap-romance, forced-proximity, friends-to-lovers, slow-burn
Setting: Ryan's House, construction sites, hotel
315 pages · Paperback · C. Scott Publishing Corp.