Forever with Her Series by Alex Moon

Charleen Matthews thought she knew who she was. She has spent forty years living the life she was supposed to want. Then she met the woman she wasn’t supposed to want at all. This is a super steamy best friend’s mom, age gap forbidden romance. Charleen has always followed the rules. Wife. Mother. Respectable. Safe. After her divorce, she sets out to rediscover the world - and herself - one step at a time. She never expected that journey to lead straight to Maxine... moreCharleen Matthews thought she knew who she was. She has spent forty years living the life she was supposed to want. Then she met the woman she wasn’t supposed to want at all. This is a super steamy best friend’s mom, age gap forbidden romance. Charleen has always followed the rules. Wife. Mother. Respectable. Safe. After her divorce, she sets out to rediscover the world - and herself - one step at a time. She never expected that journey to lead straight to Maxine. Maxine has spent years hiding a dangerous secret: she’s been hopelessly drawn to her best friend’s mother for far longer than she should admit. She knows it’s reckless. She knows it could destroy everything. But when a storm traps them together and the tension between them finally breaks, resisting becomes impossible. What begins as stolen moments turns into something deeper. Something intoxicating. Something neither of them can hide forever. But loving each other means risking family, friendship, and the life Charleen thought she wanted. Because some desires don’t fade with time. They only grow stronger. Tropes: age gap romance • forbidden attraction • best friend’s mother • sexual awakening • forced proximity • emotional fallout • steamy sapphic romance • guaranteed HEA. Some women change your life. Others make you brave enough to claim it. less

She was supposed to be objective. Robyn Voss covers local politics for a paper nobody reads. Senator Caid Masters is running for Congress with a family name, a flawless record, and a fiancé who looks perfect in photographs. When Robyn is assigned to shadow the Senator for a day, she expects thirteen hours of handshakes and talking points. She doesn't expect the way Caid looks at her when no one else is watching. Their arrangement has rules. No feelings. No public contact. No evidence... moreShe was supposed to be objective. Robyn Voss covers local politics for a paper nobody reads. Senator Caid Masters is running for Congress with a family name, a flawless record, and a fiancé who looks perfect in photographs. When Robyn is assigned to shadow the Senator for a day, she expects thirteen hours of handshakes and talking points. She doesn't expect the way Caid looks at her when no one else is watching. Their arrangement has rules. No feelings. No public contact. No evidence. But every stolen hour in Caid's private apartment chips away at the walls between them, and Robyn is losing the ability to tell the difference between covering a story and living inside one. Then an anonymous tip lands in Robyn's inbox, and everything she thought she knew about Caid Masters starts to unravel. The Senator's secrets go deeper than a hidden relationship. And Robyn has to decide whether the truth is worth the price of telling it. Tropes: Ice queen, Forbidden Romance, Secret Relationship, Power Imbalance, Workplace / Assignment to Lovers, Opposites Attract. less