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Strictly Cardio: A Steamy Reverse Age Gap, Coworkers-to-Secret-Lovers Romance
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 22 2026
Pages: 74
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.18 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
STRICTLY CARDIO
A Steamy Reverse Age Gap, Coworkers-to-Secret-Lovers Romance
Tina has been running codes on the same hospital unit for thirty years. At sixty-four, divorced and five years into a house that's too quiet, she's made her peace with the arithmetic of her life. She's a lifer. They'll wheel her out on the backboard.
Then there's Derek. Forty-two years old, twelve years working side by side with her-easy in his own skin, the nurse every new hire orbits before they settle into the work. He's the last person she ever looked at that way. He's just Derek, in the good way.
Until a coworker's going-away party, when he tells her she's the most remarkable woman he's ever known.
And doesn't laugh. And doesn't take it back.
She has a plan for that. A sensible, grown-up, no-strings plan: two people who already trust each other and one ironclad rule-nobody at work can ever know. No feelings. No mess.
It's supposed to be simple.
But simple has a way of growing when you're not watching it. And somewhere between the bike rides and the slow mornings, Tina catches a word in her teeth she can't afford to say-because saying it out loud would break the only rule that mattered.
She built this whole arrangement so she'd never have to risk her heart again.
She should have known better.
A tender, funny, and seriously steamy slow-burn with explicit, on-the-page heat. For readers who like their romance grown-up, their heroines sharp, and their happy endings hard-won.
One-click and fall in love with Tina and Derek. Just don't tell Renata.
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