The One Rule We Broke

There was only one man Tessa Morgan was never supposed to want. When Manhattan event producer Tessa returns to the Connecticut coast to save her late grandmother's storm-damaged inn, she expects impossible deadlines, expensive repairs, and one last summer before returning to the life she built in New York. She doesn't expect Noah Vale. Quiet, capable, and far too difficult to ignore, Noah is the restoration contractor who can save the Mariner House before its make-or-break wedding season.
He's also the man Tessa's best friend Claire once planned to marry. For Tessa, that should make him completely off-limits. But working side by side turns avoidance into attraction, attraction into intimacy, and one forbidden choice into a secret neither of them can keep forever. Noah knows the story everyone in Seabrook believes about his breakup with Claire isn't the whole truth. He also knows that truth isn't his to reveal.
As gossip closes in and Tessa's loyalty to the woman who has always stood by her collides with the man she is falling for, every choice threatens someone she loves. Tessa has spent her life believing loyalty means never choosing a man over another woman. Noah has spent years believing protecting people means carrying their blame in silence. Falling in love will force them both to discover what honesty really costs.
The One Rule We Broke is a steamy contemporary small-town romance featuring a best friend's ex, forbidden attraction, forced proximity, slow-burn tension, a coastal inn, emotional family wounds, and an earned happily-ever-after.