Summer House Rules

One summer. One beach house. A few simple rules. And one attraction that was never supposed to happen.

At twenty-four, Noah Bennett is standing on the edge of real adulthood. College is over, a respectable new job begins in September, and he has one final summer of freedom before schedules, responsibilities, and ordinary life take over.

The plan is simple: ten weeks in a beach house with his best friends, endless days by the ocean, late-night parties, and absolutely no unnecessary complications.

Then Ethan Cole arrives.

Ethan is Noah's best friend's older brother-the man Noah once had an impossible crush on and never expected to want again. Older, confident, newly single, and more tempting than Noah remembers, Ethan immediately turns an easy summer into something far more dangerous.

The attraction between them begins with lingering looks, teasing conversations, and moments that almost become something more. When they finally stop resisting each other, they agree on rules designed to keep everything simple: no jealousy, no expectations, no promises about September, and definitely no letting Lucas discover that his best friend and his brother are secretly falling into bed together.

But summer has a way of destroying carefully made plans.

Stolen kisses become secret nights. Casual attraction becomes tenderness. Jealousy makes the rules harder to follow, and ordinary moments-morning coffee, grocery runs, walks along the beach, and waking up beside each other-begin to feel more intimate than either man expected.

Soon Noah realizes the greatest danger isn't getting caught.

It's falling in love with a man who may still believe their relationship has an expiration date.

As the end of summer approaches, Noah and Ethan must decide whether what happened inside the summer house was only meant to survive until September-or whether breaking every rule might lead them to something neither of them planned to find.

Summer House Rules is a warm, emotional MM contemporary romance about secret attraction, best-friend complications, forced proximity, jealousy, friendship, self-discovery, and discovering that sometimes the relationship you never planned is the one worth carrying home.