Breaking the Rules

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Breaking the Rules

Three steamy forbidden-romance novellas about the people you're supposed to keep your hands off: your best friend's dad, your new stepbrother, and the bodyguard hired to protect you.

They know exactly where the line is. Falling in love makes staying behind it impossible.

A masquerade encounter, an anonymous hookup, and a bodyguard assignment set three connected couples on a collision course with the rules meant to keep them apart. Breaking the Rules pairs high heat with family ties, secret relationships, and the vulnerability it takes to turn desire into a lasting love.

Each novella follows a different couple to a happily ever after. Read Only a Kiss, Just for Tonight, then About Last Night to follow the connected family and friendships; later books reveal developments in earlier couples' lives. About Last Night can be read as a standalone.

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Only a Kiss (Breaking the Rules, book 1)

All I wanted was one little kiss…from my best friend’s dad. 

It was a fantasy I knew would never come true–he was twenty years older than me and had never seen me as anything other than his daughter’s best friend. Kissing me, touching me, doing all the things I pleasured myself thinking about would not only risk his relationship with his daughter, it could ruin his reputation. 

But when our paths crossed at a masquerade ball and I realized he didn’t recognize me, I took my chance at the fantasy that had plagued me for years. 

My mistake was thinking he wouldn’t live up to my imagination, but as it turns out, one kiss would never be enough. 

For either of us. 

Only a Kiss is a super steamy age gap, forbidden romance with no cheating, no cliffhanger, and a guaranteed happily ever after.

Content advisory: References to a difficult childhood and family conflict.

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Just for Tonight (Breaking the Rules, book 2)

It was only supposed to be a hot, anonymous hookup.

I wanted one night after years in a dry spell to let loose and do something reckless. 

But the hot guy from the bar who unlocked kinks I never in a million years would’ve thought I’d like, let alone love, turns out to be not so anonymous. Nope. He’s my new step-brother. 

What’s worse is now he’s everywhere. Coming home from a coffee run? He’s there. Fun, afternoon barbeque my uncle holds for his family and coworkers? He’s there. Because of course the infuriatingly attractive jerk would get a job with my uncle’s company.

Oh yeah, and we also can’t seem to stop hooking up. 

We keep saying it’s just for tonight, but I’m starting to worry one more night will never be enough. 

Just for Tonight is a steamy forbidden, stepbrother romance. If you don't like a dirty talking hero who pushes his woman's boundaries, then you absolutely should NOT read this book.

Content advisory: Combat trauma, flashbacks, and survivor guilt; detailed recollections of military deaths and severe injury; emotionally neglectful and belittling family relationships.

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About Last Night (Breaking the Rules, book 3)

He was supposed to guard my body, not steal my heart.

Of all the bodyguards in the world, did my manager have to hire the hottest one I’d ever seen? Surely there were men available who wouldn’t eviscerate my panties with just one look. 

When we were forced to stay in a cabin in the middle of nowhere–just the two of us–the tension that had been building between us finally snapped. 

What started out as an impulse turned into pure bliss and the deepest connection I’d ever felt with another person. Not only did he light my body up in ways I’d never experienced, but he made me feel seen for who I really was and not just how the media presented me. 

But just when I thought I’d found my happily ever after, reality came crashing down around us. 

About Last Night is a steamy age-gap, bodyguard forbidden romance. It is book three in the Breaking the Rules series, but can be read as a standalone. 

Content advisory: Stalking and death threats, including simulated violent imagery; gun violence, injury, and hospitalization; online harassment; parental emotional neglect; a brief reference to suicidal thoughts in a secondary person's past.

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