Older
Jennifer Hartmann
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
4.40
· Steam/Spice level: 4 of 5
Explicit open door [?]
· 37 ratings · 485 pages · Published: 03 Apr 2024
Bruised and abused, and victim to a loveless household, I shimmered with new life the moment he found me drowning my sorrows in a lake beneath the stars.
A chance encounter. An unspoken connection.
I was smitten; he was curious.
But, as everyone knew, fate could be decidedly cruel.
He called me Halley, like the comet.
I called him Reed.
And my best friend?
Well…she called him Dad.
Older is a forbidden, slow-burn, age-gap romance standalone, ending in an HEA.
Tagged as:
- age gap 12
- secret relationship 12
- best friend's parent 12
- dual pov 12
- angst 10
- contemporary 9
- forbidden love 8
- found family 8
- single father 7
- new adult 7
- m-f romance 7
- tortured heroine 5
- teacher/coach hero 5
- slow burn 4
- male pov 4
- first person pov 4
- small town 4
- sweet/gentle heroine 4
- sweet/gentle hero 4
- working class hero 4
- competent heroine 3
- possessive hero 3
- high school 2
- height difference 1
- fighter hero 1
- 20th century 1
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- content warnings
- past child abuse 6
- past child neglect 6
- abuse 5
- past abuse 5
- third party abuse 4
- geography
- usa 4
- illinois 4
- north america 2
- south carolina 1