The Electrician

The Renovation Project, Book Six
by Isla Wilde

Pairing: MF
Heat: 5/5 Inferno
Tropes: Age Gap, Blue Collar, Sensory Play, Edging, Addiction Recovery, Forced Proximity, Reverse Harem, Hurt/Comfort

She thought intensity meant chaos. He’s about to show her that the most overwhelming sensations come from absolute control.

Callie Monroe has been awakened in ways she never imagined—by Ford’s patience, Jax’s joy, Silas’s instinct, Dane’s command, and Mac’s care. But nothing has prepared her for Ellis Thorne. Silent. Watchful. A recovering addict who rebuilt himself from the wreckage of his old life and now feels everything too deeply to let anything show.

Ellis doesn’t do chaos. He does precision. Observation. Control so absolute it’s become his armor against a world that nearly destroyed him. Eight years sober, he counts every single day—2,922 of them—because counting means surviving.

When he arrives to rewire her grandmother’s Victorian, he brings more than cables and circuit breakers. He brings an intensity that has nothing to do with electricity—and everything to do with the way he watches her. Studies her. Learns her responses with the same meticulous attention he gives to every wire in the house.

As they work together—mapping circuits, uncovering secrets buried in the foundation, discovering that the house holds one final clue to her grandmother’s forbidden love story—Callie learns that sensation can be overwhelming even when it’s gentle. That control can be a gift. And that the quietest man in the room might be the one who sets her on fire.

The Electrician is Book Six of The Renovation Project, a high-heat reverse harem romance series featuring sensory play, edging, temperature play, addiction recovery (handled with care), blue-collar heroes, found family, and a woman discovering that some currents run deeper than she ever knew. Contains explicit content intended for readers 18+. All activities are consensual between adults.

Content Notes

This book contains: explicit sexual content, significant age gap (13 years), sensory play including temperature play and sensory deprivation, edging, addiction recovery themes (opioid addiction, handled sensitively), references to past overdose, and the sixth book in a reverse harem series where the heroine is intimate with multiple partners.

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Chapter One: The Current

Ellis Thorne didn’t speak for the first forty-eight hours.

He arrived on a Tuesday morning—Ford’s truck in the driveway, the two of them unloading equipment with the easy rhythm of men who’d worked together for decades. I watched from the kitchen window, coffee cooling in my hands, trying to get a read on the newest member of the brotherhood.

Tall. Lean. Angular in a way that suggested sharp edges rather than softness. Dark hair cropped close, dark eyes that seemed to absorb light rather than reflect it. He moved with a precision that reminded me of Dane—every motion deliberate, nothing wasted—but where Dane’s control felt like a coiled spring, Ellis’s felt like something else entirely.

Like stillness. Like the moment before lightning strikes.

“That’s Ellis,” Ford had told me the night before, when he’d explained the next phase of the renovation. “Best electrician I’ve ever worked with. He’ll rewire the whole house—panel, circuits, smart lighting, everything. Place will be safer and more efficient than anything built in the last fifty years.”

“What’s he like?”

Ford had paused—unusual for him, who always seemed to have the right words. “Quiet. Observant. He notices things other people miss.” Another pause. “He’s been through some stuff, Callie. Give him time to warm up.”

I’d wanted to ask what kind of stuff, but something in Ford’s tone suggested it wasn’t his story to tell.

Now, watching Ellis carry equipment into my grandmother’s house with mechanical efficiency, I found myself wondering what those dark eyes saw when they looked at the world. What they’d see when they looked at me.