When Marlowee Vale realizes her boyfriend Chase doesn’t appreciate her, she doesn’t expect comfort to come from the last person it should—his father, Logan Rivers. What starts as dangerous flirting becomes a powerful, undeniable pull. Caught between an inattentive boyfriend and the magnetic older man who sees right through her, Marlowee must choose between the safe life she’s always known… and the fire she can’t resist.
At a quiet high school ruled by routine, Theon Watson lives by discipline—at work and at home. Married with two children, he keeps his world carefully contained until Marlowee Blackwood, a charismatic first-year teacher, arrives fresh from college. Assigned to guide her, Theon finds himself drawn into a connection that blurs professional boundaries and unsettles his already fragile marriage. Whispers grow and restraint begins to fail. Both face consequences of crossing a line.
**Public Summary:** Marlowee Vale and Logan Rivers are best friends who occasionally blur the lines—no feelings, no strings, no complications. But when new people and new pressures enter their lives, their easy arrangement starts to crack. *Tangled Without Ties* follows two inseparable friends fighting to protect their bond as the rules they swore by begin to shift.
Twenty-five-year-old Marlowee Hart is sweet, sheltered, and completely oblivious to flirting—especially when it comes from her best friend, Logan Rivers. Logan has been in love with her for years, dropping hints so obvious strangers blush… but Marlowee never catches on. When she starts dating someone new, Logan reaches his breaking point, and the truth he’s been holding back threatens to change everything between them.
Marlowee Vance has learned to survive by keeping her distance, especially from touch, after years of abusive relationships. When she meets Asher Moore—a kind, affectionate man who shows love through physical closeness—their connection is strained by misunderstanding and fear. As Asher learns to slow down and Marlowee begins to feel safe for the first time, they discover that healing isn’t about fixing the past, but choosing trust, patience, and love on new terms.
Once former rivals, Aurora Tarantino and Marlowee De Santis are now bound by marriage, friendship, and a shared secret: they are not just mafia wives, but handlers tasked with keeping the past buried. As their marriages to powerful brothers Lorenzo Tarantino and Mattia De Santis unite two crime families, the women quietly travel to erase old crimes, silence threats, and maintain control. When a buried secret resurfaces, loyalty, love, and survival collide—and the most dangerous players are the o