Keeping Pace — Dee Carney

One spark could burn her world down.

Six years after her husband's death, Regina Pace is still just going through the motions, her only pleasure a nightly glass (or three) of wine to dull the ache. Tonight is no exception -- until a sensual outdoor encounter with her neighbor's son, freshly home from college. He's older, wiser, more devastatingly handsome than she remembered. He's also fifteen years her junior.

Despite her misgivings, it isn't long before her nightly ritual includes a long, deep drink of Josh Smith. Ogling leads to touching, then the sparks flare into an erotic encounter that feels wickedly right -- and deliciously forbidden.

Yet the intense heat can't burn away the doubt pestering the back of her mind. That the gap between their ages is too large, even for the most determined leap of faith…

Features a boy-next-door who won't take no for an answer, more than one sexual fantasy (including some outdoor self-loving!), and a burning romance that proves age is just a number.