Zinnia
Falling for a stranger over coffee? Fine. Learning he’s your art history professor? Problem.
Nick is guarded, intense, and so tightly wound I ache to unravel him. I know it’s wrong to pursue my professor, but he keeps showing up anyway—at the coffee shop, outside of class—as if he can’t stay away any more than I can. As if this is inevitable.
I’ve never been a person who stays. I wouldn’t even know how. But the more I try to let him go, the more I realize he might be the one I’m finally ready to choose.
Nick
I don’t blur lines. I don’t indulge feelings.
And I definitely don’t get involved with students.
But I met Zinnia before I knew who she was. Before the lecture halls, before the rules, before I had anything to lose. With her, I forgot myself. The restraint. The control. The life I built to keep everything, especially desire, in check.
Now she sits in my classroom, looking at me as if she knows exactly who I am beneath it all.
I should end this before it starts. Because she’s not only a risk to my career, she’s a risk to everything I thought I was.
Review
This is the 5th book in the Forbidden on Fruit Street Series and follows the Story of Zinnia and Nick who are brand new characters.
Zinnia is back in New York for the Summer to spend some time with her Grandmother, who surprises her by signing her up to some Summer art classes, it’s here that she meets Nick who just so happens to be her professor.
This is an age gap romance, Zinnia is 25 and Nick is 42. It has all the classic forbidden love vibes. I enjoyed the pacing of the relationship, there was no insta love so that was good. I thought Nick was a little hard to like in the beginning but he did grow on me and Zinnia was a delight, very mature for her age.
I had fun with this book. It was the perfect light read, I really love Jen’s books. She somehow manages to get me to get me swept up into the story no matter what story she is telling.
My Rating: 4/5 🌟🌟🌟🌟
About the Author
Jen Morris writes steamy escapist romance with imperfect heroines and tall, bearded heroes. She believes that almost anything can be fixed with a good laugh, a good book, or a plane ticket to New York.
Her books follow people with big dreams as they navigate life and love in the city. Her characters don’t just find love—they find themselves, too.
Jen lives with her partner and son, in a tiny house on wheels in New Zealand. She spends her days writing, dreaming about New York, and finding space for her ever-growing book collection.
*I received an ARC of this book from Publisher/Author in exchange for an honest, voluntary review
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