I spent a year on my knees for a man whose name I never knew. Now, he’s standing in my father’s kitchen wearing a wedding ring.
For twelve months, Thursday nights at Veil were my survival. In that anonymous, masked dark, he was the Master who dismantled my walls and quieted the chaos in my head. I gave him my body and my absolute submission, but I was too terrified to give him my name. So he walked away, leaving me stranded in the dark.
Four years later, I drive to suburban Connecticut to design my father’s wedding invitations. I expected awkward family dinners. I expected to feel like an outsider looking into my father’s perfect new life.
I didn’t expect Marcus Hale.
He is the brilliant architect building my father a future. He is steady, controlled, and deeply loved by a man who trusts him implicitly. He is also the exact man whose leather gloves I can still feel against my wrists.
Trapped under the same roof for six weeks, our system of avoidance is a pressure cooker. Every stolen glance is an invitation; every micro-expression across the dinner table is a detonation waiting to happen. Marcus needs absolute control, but my presence is fracturing his perfectly designed life.
The countdown to the wedding is ticking, and the line we are about to cross will leave nothing but wreckage in its wake. Because when the doors close and the rules fail, I don’t want the phantom in the mask anymore.
I want the man.
Step Out of Line is a high-angst, high-steam M/M romance featuring an intense age-gap, an accidental forbidden stepdad dynamic, and a deep psychological power exchange. It features dual POVs and handles themes of emotional healing with a guaranteed, hard-earned HEA.
