She knows she should keep her distance from the older man next door, but his heavy gaze and weathered hands turn every glance into something she cannot stop wanting.

She is tired of being good, tired of the careful path laid out for her, tired of being her father's careful daughter. In him she finds the hunger she has been starving for, the rough certainty that meets her softness without asking permission. Summer nights find them against the fence in darkness, his mouth on her neck, her back pressed to splintered wood, the age between them only making her ache more sharply. He is safety and ruin both, the only place she does not have to pretend.

When what they have built in secret threatens to spill into morning light and cost her everything she was raised to value, she must choose: the life that has always been waiting for her, or the man who has finally taught her what her body was made for.

A full-length age gap forbidden taboo erotic romance featuring a college student who has outgrown her good-girl skin and the older neighbor who knows exactly how to peel it away.