Stuck With Friend’s Mom

Forty-four, newly divorced, and at the top of her professional game, Helena thought she had her life under control. But lately, a restless, primal hum beneath her skin has been reminding her of everything she's missing. It's a secret frustration she buries beneath designer suits and ten-hour workdays. Liam is twenty-one, athletic, and her son's best friend. He's always been a fixture in her life - a sweet kid she's watched grow up.
But now, he's a man radiating a raw energy she finds herself struggling to ignore. A chance encounter in the express elevator home becomes the ultimate test of her composure. The small, mirrored space makes his presence overwhelmingly physical, a temptation she is determined to resist. But when a violent lurch plunges them into darkness, trapping them between floors, the rules of the outside world vanish.
In the suffocating silence, broken only by their ragged breaths, polite boundaries dissolve and years of unspoken tension ignite. With no escape and no witnesses, the only thing left to guide them is pure instinct. When a single, reckless act in a steel box could shatter the life she so carefully built, how far will she let herself fall? What happens in the dark doesn't always stay there, especially when the elevator doors finally open...