Contemporary romance — an older man, a younger woman, explicit · Marlcaster

Room Nine

Every Tuesday for six years, the most careful man in Marlcaster has taken room nine at the Bell. Alone. At a discount nobody will explain.

Clare Tennant, thirty-two, has been hired to make the old coaching inn on the market square pay, and the first handshake deal she finds belongs to Laurence Faircloth, fifty-one, whose family name has been over a door on that square for ninety years. She tells him the rate. He tells her it's none of her business, pays in full, and keeps coming.

Inside her hotel, she gives the orders. Outside it, he does — always with the reason attached — and she finds she likes it. Then one Tuesday she goes upstairs with him, and learns what room nine really is: the one night a week he lets himself want anything. And she has just been filed into it.

When the town starts talking, he does what he has always done and steps back to protect her. It is exactly the wrong thing. This time, the correction will have to be made out loud.

A warm, explicit age-gap romance set in a small English market town, with a guaranteed happy ending. Perfect for fans of Sara Cate and Mariana Zapata.

Publication
October 2026
Pages
≈ 178

Categories

ContemporarySmall TownWorkplace Romance

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