Our Off-Limit Rule: An Forbidden Slow-burn Older Brother's Best Friend Romance about secrets, tension and temptation

When Melissa Griffin’s ceiling caves in—literally—she’s forced to move in with her older brother, Max, and his elusive best friend, Nathan Lachlan.
Nathan is the kind of man your mother warns you about. Quiet. Unreadable. Tattoos like secrets written on skin. He’s everything Melissa shouldn’t want, especially when he’s sharing a house with her brother.
But there’s something about the way he looks at her — like he’s already breaking the rules just by breathing her in—that makes it impossible to stay away.
What starts as teasing glances and midnight banter turns into something far more dangerous. Each touch feels like trespassing, every silence hums with the question neither of them dares to ask. Because if Max ever finds out, it won’t just be a broken heart at stake, it’ll be the fragile peace holding their makeshift family together.
Melissa and Nathan find themselves trapped between guilt and gravity, unable to resist the pull that could ruin them both.
She knows falling for him would be a disaster.
He knows loving her could destroy everything.
But what if the most dangerous thing of all…
is pretending they don’t already belong to each other?
A tense, intoxicating slow-burn that crackles with forbidden chemistry, heartbreak, and the kind of love that feels like a dare.