I hesitate. This seems inappropriate even if I weren’t having the thoughts I’m having, and I am. I’m a second from waving him off.
“Erin.”
His voice is a command. It’s almost the tone I’ve heard him use on the soccer field with his teammates, but there’s a different edge. One that makes my knees weak and, heaven help me, everything south of my waist tighten and throb. I should scold him for using my name but my synapses are too busy sending signals to other parts of my body to get the words out.
“Take my coat. Please. You’re freezing. I don’t want you making yourself sick.” My lips part, revealing chattering teeth, and I reach for the coat. The expression on his face softens when I take it. He’s back to being one of my students. “Can’t have you missing class. There’s too much to cover. I’ll never pass the AP if we don’t get through it all.”
I yank the fleece over my head, warm from his body and smelling of his clean, Ivory-soap scent. A lot of the boys wear expensive colognes. They smell like luxe department stores. Not Shep. His aroma is drug-store toiletries made irresistible by the fragrance of him layered underneath. I tug the zipper all the way up my throat and realize I’m swimming in it. I have to push up the sleeves so I can see my hands. I look like a toddler in my father’s clothes.
“Thank you. I’ll have this back to you tomorrow.”
He nods and bends to pick up his bags, slinging the backpack over his shoulder.
“Thanks, Miss Brewster.”
“Of course. See you tomorrow.”
I huddle inside the warmth of his coat, trying to deny the pleasure of being surrounded by him, and hurry across the quad. I look back before I open the door to Oliver. Shep is standing with the door open, waiting for me to go inside. Not until I swing the door open does he heft his duffel bag and go inside himself.
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The After Hours Series
Alpha in the Sheets
Bound in the Streets
Reclaiming His Wife
For His Eyes Only
A Heart to Keep
Insidious
The Snow and Ice Games Series
Love on the Tracks
Seduction on the Slopes
On the Edge of Scandal
Fire on the Ice
On the Brink of Passion
The License to Love Series
Thrown Off Track
The Inside Track
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Camp Firefly Falls
In Her Court
Love, All
Standalone Novels
Taming His Teacher
His Custody (Re-releasing Fall 2019)
For Her Own Good
If I Loved You Less
Short Stories and Novellas
Needs
(Originally published in the Winter Rain anthology)
Looking for a Complication
(Originally published in the For the First Time anthology)
Dedication of a Lifetime
(Originally published in the Rogue Affair anthology)
Craving Flight
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Rogue Affair
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Rogue Ever After
Best Women’s Erotica of the Year Volume Four
About the Author
Tamsen Parker is a USA Today bestselling romance writer, with books in the erotic romance, hot contemporary, sports, and now sweet subgenres, and writes about f/f, m/f, and m/m couples falling for each other. The Lesbian Review named both IF I LOVED YOU LESS and FIRE ON THE ICE to their Top 15 Books of 2018, and IN HER COURT as one of the Top 10 Audiobooks of 2018. Her novella CRAVING FLIGHT was named to the Best of 2015 lists of Heroes and Heartbreakers, Smexy Books, Romance Novel News, and Dear Author. Heroes and Heartbreakers called her After Hours series “bewitching, humorous, erotically intense and emotional.”
Acknowledgments
As those of you who follow me on social media know—because I referred to this as The Book That Won’t Die—For Her Own Good has been A LOT. It’s intensely personal in a lot of ways and writing it forced me to grapple with some really hard topics. It’s a lot longer than I was anticipating which threw off my whole carefully orchestrated schedule but I needed to let Lowry and Starla tell their story, their whole story. I would not have made it without my squad, my team, and for them I am forever grateful.
AJ, Misha, and Jill kept me going when I felt like quitting. They listened to epic amounts of whining and angst and basically are the best friends a girl could ask for.
My Becca Bird’s enthusiasm kept me going—she’s been begging for this book since I uttered the words “ex-psychiatrist daddy kink.”
Christa Désir, my editor, worked her usual magic with a sensitive and deft touch while still challenging me to make the best book possible and questioning my bullshit. Idk, she’s magic.
Manuela Velasco from Tessera Editorial, my copy editor, was everything you would expect from one of Christa’s mentees. Thorough, consistent, compassionate, and, unlike me, knows where to put commas.
Lori Jackson, my cover designer, gave me the most swoon-worthy Lowry I could have dreamed of, and has the incredible ability to make things perfect based off my feedback which generally goes something like “Idk, it just doesn’t look right?”
And as always to the readers and reviewers who spend their time and resources on my books when you have so many choices, thank you for spending your precious time with me and my words. I am so thankful for all of you.
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