Book profile
Birthday Girl
- Subgenre
- romance
- Edition year
- 2018
- Spice
- Heat not verified
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Birthday Girl is a standalone contemporary romance following 19-year-old Jordan, who moves into 38-year-old Pike Lawson’s home after having nowhere else to go, alongside her boyfriend (Pike’s son). As the pair navigate forced cohabitation, a slow-burning attraction develops between them, complicated by their significant age gap, the fact that Pike is her boyfriend’s father, and the moral conflict of Pike having offered Jordan shelter when she was vulnerable. The pair must weigh their growing feelings against the multiple barriers keeping them apart.
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- Age Gap: “She's nineteen, and I'm thirty-eight.” source
- Forbidden Love: “And her boyfriend's father.” source
- Forced Proximity: “Unfortunately, they both just moved into my house.” source
- Slow Burn: “As the days go by, though, it's becoming anything but easy. I have to stop my mind from drifting to her and stop holding my breath every time I bump into her in the house.” source
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