Out of Bounds

Dr. Forrest Graham has just walked away from another aimless relationship, and an attraction he has suppressed for years is getting harder to ignore.

Lucy O'Shields—secretary of the English Department she graduated from, and once his student—is out of bounds.

Knowing that does nothing to cool what he feels.

She is comfortable in the job. The quirky professors around her office keep her busy, content, and entertained, and she is thankful the hopeless crush she felt for him at first sight, back when she was a student, was squelched long ago.

When tragedy strikes his family, her friendship proves indispensable all over again.

New feelings are simmering perilously close to love, though, and he is afraid of losing the most important relationship in his life.

She begins to wonder whether that schoolgirl crush has turned into something she cannot repress.

The coworkers and friends around them are obtrusive, and they mean well.