Against the Wall

Mara has spent too many nights holding everyone else together.

Cole has spent too many nights watching her do it.

He is the bouncer at the door: broad, quiet, controlled, and annoyingly good at seeing through her. She is the woman who never lets herself need anyone. Their chemistry should be simple. Irritation. Banter. Nothing more.

Until the night Mara leaves the club alone, and a man who ignored her no follows her into the dark.

Cole gets there in time.

After that, nothing between them goes back to normal.

His hands become too careful. His voice gets too close. His restraint starts to feel like a promise, and Mara realizes the most dangerous thing about Cole is not the way he protects her.

It is the way he makes her want to stop protecting herself.

Against the Wall is a spicy contemporary romance novella with a protective bouncer, a stubborn caretaker heroine, slow-burn tension, forced proximity, intense consent, and one wall neither of them can hide behind forever.