He reads walls for the fault that will break them. She has none left to hide.
Caleb arrives at Hartholm Farm in Northumberland to repair a fallen boundary wall. His entire career has been built on finding what doesn't hold - every hidden weakness, every course set wrong. He has never arrived somewhere with nothing to find.
Iris has kept four hundred acres of upland alone for eight years - the sheep, the walls, the farm's uncompromising rhythm. Her authority is direct and unhurried. The moment Caleb arrives, she reads him the way he reads stone.
As autumn turns the moorland and the work between them deepens, a single misheard phone call threatens the trust they've built. Iris responds with one unflinching statement. For the first time, Caleb crosses into the space she has long held open.
A dark possessive BBW Mommy Dom breeding romance. He spent years reading structures for what might break. She was the one that held.
Book 4 of The Lush and Bred Series. Standalone. All characters 25+.