The Light She Found

"I don't know what you're doing to me, but I don't think I mind it."
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Rennon Wolhoff has never been afraid of a challenge-especially not when it comes wrapped in immaculate suits, sharp intellect, and a reputation for being impossible to impress. Becoming the new teaching assistant in Dr. Cara Morrison's department is supposed to be a career move. A stepping stone. Nothing more.

But nothing about Cara is simple.

Cold, brilliant, and devastatingly self-contained, Cara Morrison guards her world like a fortress. To everyone else, she's distant. Intimidating. Unreachable.
To Rennon... she's magnetic.

Rennon isn't looking for trouble. She's trying to settle into grad school, balance her off-campus dance instructor job, and maybe-not that she'd admit it-let herself fall for someone sweet and steady for once. Someone like Paloma, the warm, quick-laughing PhD student who sees her instantly.

But every time Rennon begins to move forward, Cara's walls crack-just enough to pull her closer. A quiet defense of Rennon in a faculty meeting. A stare that lingers too long. A touch that shouldn't mean anything... but does.

And Cara can pretend it's nothing, pretend the relationship she's still trapped in is fine, pretend Rennon doesn't unsettle her entire life-but the truth is obvious to everyone except them:

They orbit each other.
They undo each other.
And when jealousy, desire, and old wounds collide, neither of them will be able to pretend anymore.

A grumpy-sunshine, slow-burn sapphic romance steeped in tension, longing, and the danger of wanting the one person you're not supposed to touch.

Some connections don't follow rules.
Some break them.