After Bedtime

A nanny and her employer can no longer ignore their attraction.

About the story

One rule. Eight months of pretending it is enough.

Thea knows exactly what this job means to her: rent paid, classes covered, and a place in a household she has come to care about. She knows the rhythms of Vanessa Whitfield’s kitchen, the small details of her day, and the rule that keeps everything uncomplicated. Do not fall for the woman who signs your paycheck.

Vanessa has built her life around keeping things together. A business to run. A son to raise after a divorce. A carefully ordered routine with no room for an attraction she cannot neatly explain away. But Thea’s steady presence makes ordinary evenings feel different—and professional distance harder to maintain.

Between shared dinners, glances that linger, and goodbyes that last a little too long, both women have reasons to protect the lives they have built. Wanting each other could complicate far more than a working relationship.

After Bedtime is a forbidden contemporary sapphic romance about the feelings that refuse to stay outside a job description.

Your kind of romance?

• A nanny and her employer
• Sapphic attraction and a fourteen-year age gap between adult women
• Domestic closeness and carefully guarded feelings
• Alternating perspectives from Thea and Vanessa

Read a short excerpt

Chapter one · Thea

I look away first this time, because someone has to, and because I have a rule, a real one, written in the part of my brain that handles rent and grades and staying employed: I do not fall for the woman who signs my paycheck. It's not complicated.

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