Adrian Matthews is a newly-minted assistant professor, and he knows it’s wrong to get involved with Dallas Palmer, a student at the university where he teaches. It’s been a long, long time since he’s been involved with anyone, and the last time he let himself love, it ended in tragedy.
But the happy, exuberant Dallas is like a ray of sunshine in his shadowed life. Adrian knows he’s too young, and he shouldn’t give in to the attraction burning between them, but somehow he just can’t help reaching out for the younger man’s warmth…
Contemporary romance. 18,000 words.