• Age gap
• Billionaire
• Forbidden
• Forced Proximity
• Grumpy/Sunshine
• Opposites Attract
• Single Dad
• Past emotional scars
• Possessive OTT Alphahole
• Interconnected Standalone

• Trent: Hothole; 33; "The Mute;" grew up poor and is now rich; has a selectively mute daughter, Luna
• Edie: Daughter of Trent's enemy; 18; hates father; has mentally unstable mother; grew up rich but needs money

• Trent has a daughter, who was left alone for a couple of days when her mother left her as a baby; Luna is selectively mute
• Trent's business partner hates him and wants him gone - Instalust between Trent and Edie
• Luna smiles and communicates with Edie, even speaking to her one time - Trent demands that Edie spend Tuesday and Sunday with him and Edie
• Jordan, Edie's father, blackmails her to find dirt on Trent and is an AWFUL person
  • He makes Edie play $12,000 a month to keep her brother in San Diego and if she doesn't do what he says, he'll move her institutionalized brother to a group home on the East Coast
  • He drugs his wife and messes with her mental health meds
  • He drops divorce papers on her and she tries to commit suicide but he doesn't care
• Trent and Edie start a physical relationship, even though he knows she is spying on him (and even though he feels like a cradle robber!)
• Edie eventually tells her father that she loves Trent and won't spy on him anymore; her father kicks her out 
• In a twist, Bane her friend and ex-BF turns out to be the son of Luna's therapist/Trent's sometimes sex partner (It turns out she's helping Edie with her brother!)
• The way Trent stay away from Edie, his obsession, his Little Tide
• Luna loving seahorses because the father carries the babies
• Luna telling Edie, "Me, too"
• When Trent meets Theo
• Edie calling Trent out on the things he needs to improve on as a father (ie. he starts learning sign language)
• THE EPILOGUE
  "Say yes."

I wanted to show her that the world was a beautiful, frightening place worth experiencing. That peasants could be crowned kings if they worked hard enough, and how her daddy was living proof of that.

“Because sometimes, our favorite things are the ones that make us cry.”

“I had a lot of fun tonight. And I hope you did, too.” She nodded, and I smiled, and maybe it was too dark for her to see it, because the next thing she did shocked me. “Me, too.” Throaty. Small. Breathy, like wind caressing waves at dawn.

“Never underestimate a broken person. We’re unpredictable, because once you’re broken—what’s one more crack?”

I gravitated toward him like he was the sun. A beautiful pleasure conceived by nature that could very well kill you if you got too close. He looked at me like I was the moon. Pale and lonely and so far away.

“When it’s all over, when all that’s left of us is sweaty flesh and shattered minds and torn hearts, you will remember me as the man who made you cry, and I’ll remember you as the girl I had to break to stay afloat.”

That night, I watched Edie for far too long. That night, I’d changed. That night, I didn’t take anything from Edie Van Der Zee. For the first time in years—I gave something of myself. Worst part? I’d never be able to retrieve it. It was hers. Forever.

“I just mean, I want to be Mrs. Rexroth. I want Theodore to be a Rexroth. I’m ready to change our last name to something we’ll both be proud of.”