The Rival Next Door

He is her fiercest rival, her dangerously tempting neighbor, and the only man who wants to kneel for her.

Professor Maya Reyes built Ashford's new Center for Cultural Memory from the ground up. She has the scholarship, the community trust, and the iron control to lead it. Then the university names historian Owen Hart as her rival for the director's chair-and he moves into the apartment across the hall.

The smarter choice is distance. Instead, late-night collaboration turns competition into temptation. Behind closed doors, Owen willingly gives Maya control, and every carefully negotiated command pulls them closer. At work, neither will surrender an argument or the future they both deserve.

When an altered proposal and an anonymous complaint weaponize their private dynamic, Maya and Owen must expose the truth without sacrificing their careers, their autonomy, or the love neither expected to find ten feet from home.

The Rival Next Door is a steamy academic rivals-to-lovers romance featuring a dominant transgender heroine, a bisexual hero, consensual D/s, neighbors-to-lovers tension, and a hard-won happily ever after.