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Seduced By The Cheerleader

Maria Johnson thought she had her life figured out.

Thirty-six, freshly divorced, brand new job, brand new town. She's moved her teenage daughter to Cannon Beach, Oregon to start over. A craftsman cottage on the coast. A promotion that finally pays what she's worth. Sixteen years of a marriage that ended with her ex saying she didn't make him "feel something."

She's done with feeling things. She's going to focus on her career and her daughter and the ocean outside her window. That's the plan.

The plan lasts until she walks into the high school office to enroll her daughter and meets the girl behind the counter.

Sara Holmes. Nineteen. Cheer captain. Hazel eyes that travel up Maria's body like she's reading a menu and has already decided what she wants. She presses Maria's name badge against the silk of her blouse with fingers that linger far too long, and Maria, who has been resolutely, boringly heterosexual for thirty-six years, walks out of that office with damp underwear and a heartbeat she can't explain.

Sara doesn't stop there.

She befriends Maria's daughter. She installs herself in their kitchen. She cooks dinners and helps with homework and makes herself indispensable, all while quietly, patiently, devastatingly making it clear that she's not going anywhere until she gets what she came for.

The brush of bare knees in a crowded gymnasium. The strip of tanned skin when she reaches across the dinner table. The way she stretches in tight pink shorts on Maria's daughter's bed, knowing exactly which mirror Maria is watching her in. Sara Holmes is patient and she is ruthless and she has decided that Maria Johnson belongs to her.

When she finally kisses Maria in a hallway at her own birthday party, in a navy bikini still wet from the pool, Maria's entire understanding of who she is cracks down the middle.

What follows is a slow, scorching unraveling. Stolen kisses in the laundry room. Phone calls in the dark where Sara talks Maria through her first orgasm at the end of her own hand in years. A pantry. A beach. A hotel room in Astoria with a fireplace and a bathtub and a whole night with no walls and no clock.

Maria learns that her body has been asleep for sixteen years. Sara wakes it up with patience and praise and a tongue that should be classified as a weapon. She calls Maria "baby" when she's inside her and "Miss Johnson" when she's teasing her, and Maria discovers that she's never wanted anything the way she wants this girl.

But Sara is her daughter's classmate. Her daughter's best friend. Nineteen years old to Maria's thirty-six. Every kiss is a risk. Every night could be the one that destroys everything Maria moved here to build.

She doesn't care. She can't stop. She's never been this alive.

Seduced By The Cheerleader is a scorching forbidden romance about waking up, falling hard, and discovering that the woman you were meant to be has been waiting your whole life.