After escaping her abusive husband, Elizabeth Morty finds herself at the last door of the boy she rejected years ago—Elliot Woods door. Back in college Elliot Woods loved Elizabeth sincerely, and although Elizabeth Morty felt something for Elliot, she still ended up choosing status over love and shattering Elliot's heart. Broken, bruised and begging for six months of shelter, Elliot agrees under one condition, he wouldn't help if her husband somehow finds her. But as the days pass in Elliot's quiet cabin, old memories begin to resurface and the line between pity and love begins to blur. Underneath this growing tension, Elizabeth's husband is hunting for his missing wife and when he finally discovers where she's been hiding, Elliot will have to choose between protecting the woman who once broke his heart and losing her all over again. Can six months under the same roof heal a love destroyed by choices, or is some damage simply too deep to mend?

"This is wrong, Rosie. I'm engaged to your mother." Henry murmured, touching my cheeks softly. "It's wrong that I want you this way." "Then let it be wrong," I whispered, pressing my body against his. "Because I don't know how else to make it right with you. And I'm tired of having you in my thoughts and dreams alone.” ****** Rosie has a secret, a forbidden one. And obsession to the one man she could never have. Her professor. Gareth Henry, disciplined and respectable. Henry was nothing more than Rosie's fantasy, until fate pulled them together. Not as her professor… But as her mother's fiancèe. Forced to live under the same roof, Rosie is trapped between what she wants and what she should never desire, every glance, every accidental touch and every quiet moment between them becomes a crack in their restraint. Because Henry remembers her. And the tension between them is no luck them one-sided. But lines exist for a reason. And crossing them could destroy everything, her family, her future and the fragile control they're both desperately holding onto.