What the River Kept — Paperback
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📖 Paperback Edition — She took a stranger home from a bar. Four hours later, the stranger was standing over a body. 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Inferno • Sapphic Age-Gap Romantic Suspense • One Night Stand • Detective/Pathologist • Age Gap. 6 × 9 paperback. For readers 18+.
Description
📖 Paperback Edition — She took a stranger home from a bar. Four hours later, the stranger was standing over a body.
Detective Greer Halloran is three weeks into Major Crimes when she catches her first homicide: a woman pulled from the canal locks in someone else’s company jacket. The deputy chief ME assigned to the case is Dr. Ines Varga—forty-eight, silver at the temples, precise to the point of cruelty, and the woman who had Greer pinned against her bedroom wall the night before. Then she handed Greer her jacket at 1:50 a.m. and said, I don’t do breakfast.
They disclose. They sign the protocol. They swear to keep the case out of the bedroom.
But a payroll auditor is dead, a contractor is missing, and the money trail leads to a beloved local man who brings donuts to every interview. The closer Greer gets, the more dangerous the case becomes—and the harder it is for Ines, who spent twenty years keeping dinner warm for someone who never came home, to believe this woman will show up when she says she will.
The case was never the hard part. Being somewhere at eight o’clock was.
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Inferno • Sapphic Age-Gap Romantic Suspense by Aurora North
Tropes: One Night Stand • Detective/Pathologist • Age Gap (15 Years) • Older Heroine • Silver Fox • Workplace Romance • Strangers to Lovers • Competence Kink • Instruction Kink • Praise Kink • Control/Surrender • Switch Dynamic • Light Bondage • Hurt/Comfort • Grovel • Romantic Suspense • HEA
Paperback details: 6 × 9 in • cream paper • matte cover. Includes a link to the exclusive bonus chapter.
⚠️ Content Warning: This novel contains extremely explicit sexual content (graphic FF scenes throughout, including a solo scene, oral, fingering, face-sitting, a strap-on, handcuffs with a safe word, edging, and instruction/praise/control play that switches both ways), strong language, and alcohol. It is also a murder mystery and includes on-page discussion of violent death, autopsy and forensic detail, the recovery of human remains, a workplace death and its cover-up, a character in fear for her life, a police foot chase and arrest, grief, and a parent who left in childhood. A 15-year age gap between consenting adults. No cheating. Intended for readers 18+.
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