SUMMER TUTOR

CHLOE JAMES (FL) 18YRS

ELIAS THORNE (ML) - 39YRS

CHLOE’S POV

I sit at the kitchen island, staring at my laptop screen like it’s written in another language. College entrance essays. Three of them, all due in less than a month, and every word I type feels wrong. I delete another sentence, groan, and rest my forehead on the cool granite countertop.

That’s when I hear the gravel crunch outside—the familiar sound of Elias’s old Jeep pulling into the guest house driveway. My stomach does that stupid flip it’s been doing all week.

Elias Thorne. My older brother’s best friend from college. Thirty-nine, published author, tall and lean...