Off Limits

An MM Forbidden Age-Gap Romance
by Jace Wilder

He’s off limits. He’s my best friend’s father. And he just told me to get on my knees.

Callum Novak has one summer to prove he belongs. The scholarship kid from Bridgeport lands an architecture internship at Rhodes & Associates — the most prestigious residential firm on the California coast — thanks to his best friend Eli, whose father runs the place. The guest house is nicer than anywhere Callum’s ever lived. The drafting table was installed just for him. The opportunity is everything.

Then he meets Garrett Rhodes.

Forty-three. Widowed. Silver at the temples and a jaw that could cut glass. A man who fills a room just by standing in it, who gives commands without raising his voice, and who looks at Callum’s work — and then at Callum — with an intensity that makes the air between them combust.

Garrett hasn’t felt anything in six years. He buried his wife, buried himself in work, and sealed away a part of his identity he’s hidden since college. Then a twenty-one-year-old with dark curls and a chip on his shoulder walks into his house and detonates every wall he’s built.

What starts as tension becomes obsession. What becomes obsession becomes a secret — stolen nights, locked doors, a relationship that exists only in the dark. But when Eli comes home early and the truth detonates, Callum and Garrett must decide: is what they’ve built worth the wreckage? And can a love that started in the shadows survive the light?

Off Limits is a 97,000-word MM forbidden age-gap romance featuring a six-chapter slow burn that will destroy you, a commanding silver fox who breaks his own rules, a brilliant intern who refuses to be invisible, and enough heat to melt architectural glass. First person dual POV. Standalone with guaranteed HEA.