Quicksand

Riley has a five-year plan, a color-coded closet, and zero tolerance for surprises. Then her best friend dares her to download an app built for people who don't believe in choosing just one.

She matches with Jax and Cole almost by accident - a joint profile, a wicked sense of humor, and an offer she has no business even considering. Jax is heat and instinct, wanting so completely it scares them both. Cole is precision wrapped around a decade of discipline, and choosing this - choosing them - is the only real rebellion he's ever allowed himself.

Together, they don't want to share her. They want to hold her - completely, unmanaged, nothing earned and nothing owed.

What Riley doesn't expect is how good she'll be at it. At being told what she needs instead of anticipating everyone else's first. At letting go, instead of holding everything together alone.

But falling is easy. What comes after is harder - families that won't open the door, a past neither man wants to repeat, and a pattern Riley didn't know she was running until it's already pulling her under. One by one, all three of them will have to choose: keep performing the safe, manageable version of themselves for people who were never going to accept the real one - or build a family entirely out of the people who actually show up.

She already knows the word to say if it gets to be too much.

She's just not sure yet if she wants to say it.

Quicksand is Book One in The Open Door Series - a slow-burn, high-heat contemporary romance about two men, one woman, and the family they choose when the ones they were born into won't choose them back.