Forced Proximity: Bluebell House Duet, Book 1

Five arrogant billionaires. One crumbling house. Zero personal space—and absolutely no good options.

When a panic attack in the middle of Meadowridge College's campus sets off a chain reaction that leaves her homeless and scrambling, the last thing she expects is to find herself signing a lease agreement with five of the wealthiest, most infuriating men on campus. Bluebell House is a wreck—peeling walls, broken fixtures, and enough drafts to rival a haunted mansion—but it's either this or sleeping in her car. She chooses the house. She's not sure yet if that was a mistake.

The men of Bluebell House are gorgeous, controlling, and insufferable in equal measure. They don't want a roommate. She doesn't want five overbearing strangers crowding every corner of her carefully rebuilt life. But as the tension between them shifts from cold hostility to something far more complicated, she starts to notice that these men are hiding things—and some of those secrets seem to circle back to her own shadowed past in ways that are impossible to ignore.

This dark contemporary romance is equal parts simmering attraction and spine-tingling suspense. Tate James and Jaymin Eve masterfully blend the forced proximity and why-choose tropes with a mystery that tightens with every chapter, keeping readers guessing long after the sparks ignite.

When the enemies become something dangerously close to everything, the truth hiding inside Bluebell House might destroy them all.