Older: Deluxe Edition

Before he discovered my age, he uncovered my heart.
Bruised and abused, and victim to a loveless household, I shimmered with new life the moment he found me drowning my sorrows in a lake beneath the stars.
A chance encounter. An unspoken connection.
I was smitten; he was curious.
But, as everyone knew, fate could be decidedly cruel.
He called me Halley, like the comet.
Icalled him Reed.
And my best friend?
Well. . .she called him Dad.
Older is a forbidden, slow-burn, age-gap romance standalone, ending in an HEA.