Office Hours - My Professor

A Forbidden Academic Romance, Age Gap, Small Town Love Story, HEA

By: Scarlett Cross, Helena von Heilig

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Cora Mitchell's research into medieval manuscript transmission is the most serious work she's done in five years of graduate school. The problem: the only professor qualified to supervise it is Dr. Marcus Hale, who she met in a coffee shop on Thursday, spilled a drink on, and discovered was her new instructor by Monday morning.

Marcus Hale is the kind of professor who runs seminars that reshape the way students understand their field. He is not the kind of professor who lets personal complications interfere with professional conduct. He is very careful about this. He has to be.

They restructure the arrangement—independent study, different power dynamic, proper documentation—and it helps. It also means they work together closely, present at the same conference, meet in the same Special Collections archive, and spend most of their interactions precisely maintaining the careful distance between colleagues who know better.

Knowing better only works for so long.

Can be read as a standalone. Part of the Forbidden Series — Free in Kindle Unlimited.

Trope keywords embedded: professor/student (title + setup), forbidden academic romance, slow burn, intellectual connection, "colleagues who know better", HEA, Happily Ever After