Where it Hurts to Stay

💔 Where It Hurts to Stay
(Wren Callahan & Leo Montgomery - Book Four in The Hurt Series)

She met him before she knew who he was.
Then she sat down in his classroom.
And everything changed.

Wren Callahan doesn't believe in happy endings.
Not after her mom spiraled-again.
Not after she left L.A. for Denver to live with her brother Dean, trying to finish her senior year without falling apart.

She's sharp-tongued, political, impossible to cage-
a girl made of wildfire learning how to survive her own sparks.

Then there's Leo Montgomery-
twenty-two, brilliant, too passionate for his own good.
A first-year teacher who still looks more like a heartbreak in denim than authority in a tie.
Too young to be cynical. Too idealistic to see the danger coming.

When they meet, he's just the stranger who challenges her beliefs, matches her bite for bite, and makes her pulse forget how to behave.

She doesn't know he teaches.
He doesn't know she's still a student.

Their spark is instant.
Their chemistry-disaster dressed up as destiny.

And when Wren walks into her new classroom and finds him standing there-sleeves rolled, eyes locked on hers

every rule that's supposed to save them starts to burn.

He's her teacher. She's the revolution he never saw coming.

A forbidden, slow-burn, age-gap romance about crossing lines, defying expectations, and falling for the one person you were never meant to love.

🔥 18+ Mature Content Warning 🔥
Contains explicit scenes, underage drinking, and a forbidden teacher-student romance between consenting characters (legal age of consent observed).