Some lines aren't meant to be crossed. Some men aren't meant to be wanted. And some summers change everything. Reese Hayes didn't come to Savannah looking for trouble. She came to heal — from a breakup that gutted her, from a year that nearly broke her, from the quiet exhaustion of always being the responsible one. A summer at her best friend Sloane's stunning estate on Magnolia Crest was supposed to be simple. Safe. A chance to breathe. She never counted on Marcus Hale. Sloane's father is everything Reese knows she shouldn't want — older, powerful, dangerously perceptive, and the kind of man who looks at you like he already knows your secrets. He's built walls for a reason. So has she. But walls have a way of crumbling when you're living under the same roof, sharing the same midnight kitchen, breathing the same charged air. He tells her she can't handle him. She tells herself he's right. Neither one of them believes it. As the Savannah heat rises and the summer burns on, the push and pull between them becomes impossible to ignore — and the closer they get, the more they risk losing. Because Marcus is Sloane's father. And Sloane is the only family Reese has left. Some desires are worth the danger. Some aren't. The problem is — Reese is starting to forget which kind this is.