Recurring Strain

At fifty-two, Kathy has stopped waiting for her life to get interesting.Twenty years in the same physiotherapy clinic have worn her down to a comfortable, colorless routine: the antiseptic smell, the fluorescent hum, the same aches on the same tables. She is good at what she does and completely invisible while she does it. Her body has softened, her reflection has stopped surprising her, and somewhere along the way she decided the world was done looking at her. She was wrong.Kalvin is thirty, a star athlete built like a monument, and he has been booking sessions with Kathy for weeks with something other than his injury on his mind. He does not care that she is older. He does not care that her curves are real and her confidence hard-won. In fact, those are exactly the things he wants. He likes a woman who knows her worth, who takes the lead, who does not shrink to fit the room. And Kathy, for the first time in years, is done shrinking.What starts as a routine appointment becomes something neither of them intends to stop. Behind the closed door of the treatment room, the professional distance dissolves, and Kathy discovers that being desired is not something a woman ages out of. She is not the overlooked technician anymore. She is the one giving the orders, the one setting the pace, the one who has a world-class athlete hanging on her every touch. She has spent her whole life being sensible. Tonight she finds out what happens when she stops.But one stolen afternoon is not enough for either of them. When Kalvin sends her an address and a time, Kathy has to decide whether this is a reckless mistake or the start of something she has been quietly starving for. Because what began as heat is turning into something deeper, an unexpected tenderness that neither of them saw coming, and for the first time in a long time, she is not interested in playing it safe.THE RECURRING STRAIN is a hot, confident older woman romance about a self-possessed heroine in her fifties, the much younger man who cannot get enough of her, and the slow-burn pull that neither of them can walk away from. Featuring a bold, curvy leading lady, a magnetic younger man, an age gap that crackles, and an interracial pairing with real warmth underneath the heat, it is written for readers who love a woman who finally decides to take exactly what she wants.If you enjoy confident older women, younger man romance, and steamy standalone stories where the heroine holds all the power, Kathy's story is one you will not put down.Kathy spent twenty years being invisible. It only took one appointment to remember exactly who she is. Contains explicit content, an age gap, and an interracial pairing. Intended for readers eighteen and older.