She’s scared of touch. He’s scared of trust. But the ache between them is undeniable.Greta doesn’t know how to let anyone in—not after what happened. Not after the fall, the silence, the weight of abandonment. She’s rebuilding slowly, on crutches and on edge, her world reduced to careful steps and half-spoken fears.Cole walked away when she needed him most. Now he’s back, not asking for forgiveness, just staying close enough to catch her if she stumbles... moreShe’s scared of touch. He’s scared of trust. But the ache between them is undeniable.Greta doesn’t know how to let anyone in—not after what happened. Not after the fall, the silence, the weight of abandonment. She’s rebuilding slowly, on crutches and on edge, her world reduced to careful steps and half-spoken fears.Cole walked away when she needed him most. Now he’s back, not asking for forgiveness, just staying close enough to catch her if she stumbles. He watches, he listens, and for the first time in his life, he doesn’t try to fix her—just hold space for her pain.But the tension simmers. Their fingertips graze. Their bodies remember what their hearts are still afraid to. And when Greta finally lets him touch her again, it’s not about sex—it’s about surrender. It’s about trust. It’s about craving someone with your whole self and still learning to say no.This isn’t the start of a love story.It’s the long road back to one.A slow-burn, emotionally raw, and achingly romantic novel filled with Indigo Slate’s signature style—sensual tension, poetic intimacy, and devastating beauty.“Touch me… but only if you can do it without breaking me.”He left. She fell. And now they’re both still aching.Greta gave Cole everything—her heart, her body, her trust—and he walked away when she needed him most. Now, weeks after the accident that changed everything, Greta is healing… on crutches, behind locked doors, afraid of love, of falling again, and of the emptiness that never really left.Cole knows he shattered more than promises. He crushed the one woman who let him see her scars—and now he’ll do anything to prove he’s still the one who deserves her touch.In a slow-burning storm of temptation, tenderness, and tease, Crave Me Carefully follows two fractured hearts learning to feel again. They tiptoe around truths, fall asleep shoulder to shoulder, exchange glances hotter than fire and kisses that press too close… only to stop when it hurts too much. Because desire is easy. Trust is everything.This is not a story about the first time.It’s about the time after—the one you fight for.An emotionally immersive, heart-wrenching, and wildly romantic novel about yearning, healing, and the intimate ache of falling in love again… carefully.“I wanted him to touch me. But only if he could do it without breaking me.” less