The first time Caleb Rourke watches Josie, she has no idea he’s there.
Surveillance is Caleb’s profession. He is supposed to document facts, keep his distance, and never become part of the story.
But Josie is not his subject. She is a brilliant escape-room designer with a leaking faucet, a talent for noticing patterns, and a smile he keeps following long after his professional justification runs out.
When Josie discovers what he has done, attraction does not erase the violation. Instead, she does what she does best. She builds rules.
Permission must be specific. It can be withdrawn. Every locked door has to open both ways.
Caleb knows how to follow instructions. Exposing the parts of himself he has kept sealed is harder.
As their carefully negotiated game becomes dangerously intimate and an outside threat moves closer, Caleb must prove that obsession can become trust without becoming control. Josie must decide whether the man who once watched from the dark can learn to stand where she can see him.
Love at First Lurk is a full-length standalone contemporary romance featuring an obsessive, morally gray private investigator, a fiercely competent heroine, chosen watching, dry humor, explicit open-door heat, real accountability, and an earned happily ever after.
