Little Boxes

Some boxes were never meant to hold.

Jade Thompson has her life under control.

For her body, she has Thursday evenings filled with rope and surrender with a man who asks for nothing more than that. And for the heart—her best friend, her person, the man she's spent six years pretending she doesn't want. And romantic love? She's not convinced she needs it because she's been doing just fine with her little boxes.

The system works. It has to work.

But four days in New Orleans with Theo tests every boundary she's built. He's noticing her differently now—her body, her presence, the way she responds to him. And she's noticing that her carefully constructed boxes aren't as separate as she thought. That the line between friendship and something more dangerous has never been thinner.

Little Boxes is a prequel to A Soft Place to Land, following Jade and Theo through the New Year's Eve tradition that will eventually bring them together. This is a slow-burn, friends-to-lovers story featuring explicit power dynamics and a hero who's still married to someone else. The happy ending comes later, but the heat starts now.