Off Limits (GxG)
"We shouldn't" The words leave Clara Bennett's mouth in a breath against Elaine Davies' lips.
"I know" Elaine whispers back.
Yet neither of them pull away.
At twenty-two, Clara is trying to rebuild a life grief nearly destroyed. After losing her sister in a car crash, she dropped out of university and spent years drowning in guilt, convinced she should have done more to save her. Now, after therapy and time away, she's returned to university to study nursing, hoping that helping others might finally quiet the ache she carries.
That's when she meets Sophie Davies.
Warm, impulsive, and impossible not to love, Sophie quickly becomes Clara's closest friend. Through her, Clara meets Sophie's mother: Elaine Davies.
A nurse. A survivor. A woman held together by exhaustion and resilience.
After becoming pregnant from rape at seventeen, Elaine was disowned by her parents and left to raise Sophie alone. For nineteen years, she has built her life around survival, long shifts, sleepless nights, and sacrificing pieces of herself so her daughter would never go without love.
Elaine is everything Clara never expected to want: guarded yet gentle, worn down yet endlessly caring. What begins as quiet conversations after late shifts and lingering moments in crowded kitchens slowly turns into something dangerous neither of them can ignore.
Because no matter how wrong it feels, no matter how many lines they should never cross, Clara and Elaine keep finding their way back to each other.
Some people are off limits.
But some loves refuse to stay that way.