Six Feet: A Steamy Forbidden Island Romance

He kept exactly six feet between them. She counted.

Maren Kessler used to be a psychologist. Then her mentor stole her research, published it under his name, and left her with a résumé full of work she can't claim. Now she profiles billionaires at a resort in the Maldives that doesn't appear on any map — reading their attachment wounds, their control patterns, the things they pay half a million dollars to finally let go of.

She wasn't supposed to profile the owner.

Dion Alekos designed the Orchid to give powerful people permission to surrender. He's spent fifteen years perfecting that architecture. He's never tested it on himself. He eats the same meal every day. He swims alone at dawn. He does not shake her hand.

Six feet. Always six feet.

Maren sees it — the touch aversion, the ritual control, the way he built paradise for everyone else and went home to a room that looks like penance. She proposes exposure therapy. Graduated. Three sessions. She'll narrate every touch before she makes it.

His thumb moves across her knuckle in Session 1. Involuntary. She holds his hand for forty-seven seconds when the protocol calls for thirty.

She doesn't write it down. That's the first thing about Dion Alekos she chooses not to annotate.

By Session 3, the narration stops. The distance collapses. And the woman who lost her career for crossing professional boundaries finds herself in the wreckage of every line she swore she'd never cross again — except this time, she's not the one who got stolen from.

This time, she's the one who can't stop taking.

Six Feet is a steamy forbidden romance with open-door scenes, an FMC who leads, an MMC who learns to surrender, and a happily ever after that earns every inch of the distance it closes. Intended for mature readers. Book 1 in The Orchid Files.

For readers of Tiffany Reisz and Sierra Simone who want their romance to leave marks.