The Guest Room Rule: A Steamy Sapphic Best Friend's Mom Romance

Joss Quinn is excellent at leaving.

At twenty-nine, the traveling audio restoration specialist has perfected the art of being the perfect guest: charming, helpful, and gone before anyone can ask her to stay. When her best friend arranges for her to spend six weeks in her mother's guest room, Joss expects a quiet temporary home.

She doesn't expect Renée Sutton.

Fifty-one, newly divorced, and fiercely independent, Renée has spent twenty-seven years making herself smaller to accommodate everyone else. Now she's reclaiming her furniture restoration business, her independence, and the pleasures she's spent half a lifetime denying herself.

The last thing she needs is her daughter's devastatingly attractive best friend under her roof.

But the old house carries sound through every wall. A private moment becomes an invitation. A shared laugh becomes a dangerous attraction. And soon, five rules are chalked onto the back of an unfinished antique chair.

Separate beds. No debts. No lying to Nora. And absolutely no promises beyond December sixth.

Breaking the rules is the easy part.

When a career-making opportunity threatens to take Joss across the country, both women must confront the one thing they've spent their lives avoiding: admitting what they really want.

Because falling into bed was never the risk. Falling in love—and choosing to stay—is another matter entirely.