Rules We Pretend Not to Break (Magnolia Ridge #1)

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.