He has seven rules. I have thirty days and nowhere else to go.
When a desperate housing search lands Jade Monroe in Cole Bennett's glass-and-steel lake house, the gruff, older tech investor makes one thing clear: no drama, no noise, no touching. Easy...until a midnight storm, a broken AC, and one extremely inconvenient one-bed situation turn "temporary" into combustible.

Cole builds systems; Jade breaks patterns. Their days become a tug-of-war of quiet routines and bright, teasing chaos—until a stolen kiss on the water burns through every boundary. But Jade's future is uncertain, Cole's past is a locked room, and the clock on their one-month agreement is ticking. When outside complications and old wounds push them apart, they'll have to decide if breaking the rules means losing the only safe place they've found—or choosing something real and forever.

Grumpy/sunshine. Age gap. Forced proximity. Lake-house slow burn that turns scorching—with heart, banter, and a melt-the-grump payoff.