Her Still Water

He reads failure in every tree. She has kept the water steady for seven years. Now she reads him - and claims what she finds.

Owen Marsh arrives at Farleigh Mill in Hampshire to assess ancient ash trees threatening the historic water mill on its crystal-clear chalk stream. He's spent his career reading structural weakness - in timber, in structure, in everything that might give way. He has never been read in return.

Agnes Farr has protected the mill for seven years - the race, the watercress beds, the surrounding meadows. Her certainty is patient and exact, and the moment Owen arrives, she begins reading him too.

As autumn deepens into winter in the keeper's cottage, the pull between them builds into something neither planned. When a misheard phone call shatters his trust, Agnes opens her journals - seven years of careful record - and offers him proof that she holds what she commits to.

A dark possessive BBW Mommy Dom breeding romance. He read every structure for what might break. She was the first thing that held.

Book 3 of The Lush and Bred Series. Standalone. All characters 25+.