Crossing Forbidden Boundaries

Michael Sawyer leaves for Europe after a broken engagement, hoping distance will ease the heartbreak while he rebuilds his life.

Comfort arrives where he least expects it: a night with Taj Badmus, who turns out to be his student.

Michael knows discovery could cost him the career he has spent years building, so he treats what happened as a line that must never be crossed again, yet Taj is determined to stay in his life and makes avoidance far harder than it should be.

Twelve years younger and unwilling to walk away from what he wants, Taj treats every rule his professor draws as something to push past, even though Michael is only there temporarily.

Their pull only grows stronger, and the more time they spend together, the less certain it feels that stepping back is the right choice.