I got pregnant in a town that doesn’t just watch you—it decides what happens to you. And somehow, I fell for the sheriff who’s supposed to enforce it.

I learned early how to survive here. Stay quiet. Stay capable. Don’t give anyone a reason to look too closely.

Riley looks anyway.

He’s the grumpy sheriff next door—closed off, impossible to read,...

A slow-burn, small-town age-gap romance with a darker edge.

I didn’t come back for him.
I came back for the job.

Dr. Nathan Keene is brilliant, controlled… and completely off-limits.

But nothing about this feels temporary anymore.

Not the tension.
Not the way he looks at me like control is slipping.
Not the pull I should have walked away from the...

A slow-burn, small-town age-gap romance where control isn’t what it seems.

I wasn’t supposed to come back.
Not to Hill Country Ridge.
Not to his house.
And definitely not to him.

Dr. Nathan Keene is brilliant, controlled… older than me in all the ways that should matter—and completely off-limits.

The last time I worked for him, I was just the nanny—...