In the soft glow of Christmas lights and falling snow, twenty-two-year-old Lila has spent years hiding a dangerous secret: she’s hopelessly obsessed with Damien, her best friend Mia’s widowed father.
Damien—forty-five, commanding, and heartbreakingly off-limits—has always been the steady presence at family dinners and holiday gatherings. But this Christmas, stolen glances turn into whispered commands, accidental touches become deliberate, and the line between wrong and inevitable blurs beyond repair.
As the season builds toward New Year’s Eve, every cozy tradition—tree decorating, midnight toasts, laughter in crowded rooms—becomes exquisite torture. One risky kiss ignites a secret affair that consumes them both: raw, possessive nights in hidden corners while the people they love most sleep down the hall.
What begins as forbidden desire spirals into something deeper, darker, and impossible to walk away from. But secrets this big have a way of unraveling, and the cost of loving Damien might be everything Lila holds dear—especially the one person who would never forgive her.
A slow-burn, age-gap erotic romance about obsession, guilt, and the intoxicating pull of wanting what you can never truly have.
