What happens when the arrangement meant to protect your heart becomes the one thing that can break it?
Calyx Maren Voss has built her life on precision, control, and never letting the town of Wrenhollow see her fall apart. With the Winter Gala approaching and her reputation already under quiet scrutiny, she cannot afford gossip, distraction, or another public wound.
Then Daxton Crane arrives.
He is quiet, exacting, impossible to charm, and determined to restore the historic Hartwell Street buildings before a powerful developer can erase them from the town's future. Their first meeting is a clash over timber, timing, and control. Their second becomes something far more dangerous: a practical arrangement with rules, boundaries, and no room for emotion.
It should be simple.
Appear together. Protect the Gala. Save the buildings. Keep the town talking about the story they want it to see.
But Wrenhollow is watching. So is someone else.
As hidden filings, calculated threats, and old wounds begin to surface, Calyx and Daxton are forced into a partnership built on trust neither of them planned to give. The more they fight for the town, the harder it becomes to deny what is growing between them. And the rules they made to stay safe may be the very thing keeping them from the truth.
The Rules Between Us is a slow-burn contemporary small-town romance filled with emotional tension, community secrets, quiet suspense, forced proximity, and two guarded hearts learning that love cannot always be scheduled, controlled, or kept behind rules.
Step into Wrenhollow, where every glance matters, every secret has a witness, and one arrangement may change everything.
Buy The Rules Between Us today and discover what happens when the rules were never strong enough to hold.
