Crossing the Line

One night with a stranger was unforgettable. Discovering she’s your mother’s best friend? Complicated… Harper Langston thought she left her lies at the door of Lavender’s Café-Bar: a fake name, a fake age, one reckless night of passion with the most intoxicating woman she’d ever met. No one had to know. Dr. Carmen Méndez believed it was just one mistake—a rare surrender to desire she’d never allow herself again. Until the new surgical intern walks into Phoenix Ridge…and she realizes the woman in her bed was Harper. Her best friend’s daughter. Bound by secrecy, pulled by temptation, Carmen and Harper...

One night with a stranger was unforgettable. Discovering she’s your mother’s best friend? Complicated… Harper Langston thought she left her lies at the door of Lavender’s Café-Bar: a fake name, a fake age, one reckless night of passion with the most intoxicating woman she’d ever met. No one had to know. Dr. Carmen Méndez believed it was just one mistake—a rare surrender to desire she’d never allow herself again. Until the new surgical intern walks into Phoenix Ridge…and she realizes the woman in her bed was Harper. Her best friend’s daughter. Bound by secrecy, pulled by temptation, Carmen and Harper can’t stay away from each other. But crossing that line risks not only their careers, but the one friendship Carmen swore she’d never betray. How far would you go for the one person you were never meant to love?