Crossing Lines" Couch Confessions

Astrid Grant is twenty-two, brilliant, furious, and freshly exiled from Stanford after a scandal she refuses to apologize for. Her father's solution is worse than the punishment itself: mandatory therapy with the one man she never wanted to see again. Dr. Fletcher Cooke. Childhood acquaintance. Family friend. The boy who ignored her at her mother's funeral. Now thirty-two, polished, calm, and absolutely determined to fix her.
He has no idea she's the masked stranger he slept with at a San Francisco club. Astrid figures it out fast. He doesn't. And she decides to use it. Therapy becomes a battleground. Astrid pushes every limit she can find-buttoned-up professionalism, his self-control, his ethics, the rules he clings to. Fletcher tries to keep his distance, but the girl in his office is the same woman who left bite marks on his skin and messages he still can't delete.
The closer he gets to the truth, the harder it becomes to decide which version of Astrid is real: the brat who wants to burn her life down, or the woman who wants the one man she was never supposed to touch. He has no idea he's already crossed the line. She's counting on it. Perfect for readers who crave high tension, forbidden dynamics, masked hookups, brat taming, and messy emotional stakes that only get hotter the more they break the rules.
Part of the Crossing Lines series - standalone romances where professional boundaries blur and desire crosses the line.