Overview

He needed a job. His dad’s oldest friend needed a lover. Now their secret could destroy both their families—if their hunger doesn’t destroy them first.

My parents think this summer job is perfect: babysit my dad’s best friend’s kids, earn some cash, stay out of trouble. They don’t know James is divorcing his wife.

They definitely don’t know what he asked me to do after the kids went to bed.

I’m a virgin. He’s twice my age. He tells me he’s spent years mastering how to build walls. I’m the first thing he’s ever wanted to tear down. He says he wants to teach me—about life, about desire, about what it means to belong to someone. I say yes.

But secrets this big don’t stay hidden. When his ex walks in on us, and our parents find out? There’s no hiding from the fallout. Not from the betrayal in my dad’s eyes, or the way my body still craves James’s touch.

Some lines, once crossed, can’t be uncrossed.