Rules We Pretend Not to Break

It was one night.
One mistake I never meant to make twice.

Magnolia Ridge thrives on gossip, and I handed it a secret it would never forgive me for when I went home with a stranger who made me forget everything.

I didn’t ask his last name.
Didn’t ask if he had kids.
I only knew the way he looked at me like he’d already decided I was trouble worth chasing.

Until he walked into my classroom.
Not by mistake.
But as my student’s father.

I said we had to stop.
He said rules were made to be broken.

That no one had to know.

Micah Wolfe is all quiet confidence and country-boy charm, with eyes that promise things he has no right to offer me. Sneaking around isn’t what I do, but loving him means risking my job, my heart, and my place in a town that never forgets.

He didn’t just cross a line with me.
He broke me when he suddenly didn’t want to keep me as his secret anymore.

That’s when I learned the hardest truth of all.

Desire is easy.
Love is what destroys you.

The Rules We Pretend Not To Break is a single-dad x teacher standalone romance. This is the first book of the Magnolia Ridge Series. A town where everyone knows or wants to know your business—with zero shame of finding out one way or another.