Barely Behaving: The Closed-Door Edition

CONTENT WARNINGS: This novel contains emotional manipulation, class power imbalance, workplace coercion themes, past parental neglect and addiction, public humiliation, romantic tension, and strong language. Barely BehavingOne bad decision can change everything.Alora has spent years surviving-working long shifts at Sullivan's Pub, keeping her head down, and convincing herself she doesn't deserve anything better. When her reckless boyfriend pressures her into helping him target a grieving stranger at a nightclub, she knows it's wrong. What she doesn't expect is Tucker Dalton.Tucker is nothing like the men Alora knows-kind, attentive, and quietly broken beneath the weight of inheriting Dalton Biomedical after his grandfather's death. Their connection is immediate, powerful, and impossible to ignore. But when the truth about that first night comes out, trust shatters, and the distance between their worlds becomes painfully clear.Determined to prove she isn't the person Tucker believes her to be, Alora agrees to repay a debt through grueling work inside Dalton Biomedical-where every hallway reminds her of what she lost. As Tucker watches her resilience, compassion, and strength, his certainty about her guilt begins to crumble. But powerful people are watching, secrets are leaking, and loving Alora could cost Tucker everything he's spent his life protecting.Drawn together again and again by undeniable chemistry and fragile vulnerability, Alora and Tucker must decide whether love is worth risking their carefully constructed lives-or whether some mistakes can never be forgiven.Because sometimes redemption requires more than forgiveness. Sometimes it requires choosing love in the open.Barely Behaving is a slow-burn, emotionally intense closed-door contemporary romance about trust, class divides, second chances, and the courage it takes to be seen.