Drowned Out (After Hours Book 1)

Juliana Rhodes likes certainty.

Carefully thought-out plans, clean lines, good decisions, and the quiet comfort of knowing exactly where her life is headed. Love has always been part of that picture too. She's rarely interested in temporary things, especially when her family seems more invested in planning her future than she is. The temporary things only come to Jules as a way to convince herself that she's still in control of her life-yes, even if it greatly contradicts her own mottos.

Hudson Dalgaard-Renaldi is the exact opposite.

He lives recklessly, says whatever comes to mind, and treats most things in life like they were never meant to be taken too seriously. Except swimming. The pool is the only place Hudson allows himself to care too much, and with everything riding on the future he's built for himself, permanent, long-term distractions have never been an option.

In the pool, failure isn't an option. Outside of it, nothing has ever felt serious enough to hold onto.

Least of all relationships.

So when the line between them begins shifting, both Jules and Hudson find themselves caught somewhere between temptation, bad decisions, and feelings neither of them were prepared for.

Because sometimes the people who make the least sense together...

Are the ones hardest to stay away from.

And some lines are much easier to cross than they are to come back from.