The Girlfriend Experience - Paperback

He's not interested in the experience. He wants her.

Nicole Brooks has built exactly the life she intended. At forty-two, she owns her home, runs IT Operations with authority, and leans on a sisterhood of friends who would do anything for her. What she doesn't have, and has mostly stopped looking for, is a love that actually sticks. After too many almost-relationships and dates that went nowhere, Nicole has learned to protect herself. Her standards are high. Her patience for almost is gone.

Then Gabriel Johnson asks her out.

The twenty-nine-year-old French-American financial analyst has been watching Nicole from across the conference room for months, not with games or vague flirtation, but with the quiet certainty of a man who knows exactly what he wants. When he finally makes his move, he's direct: he isn't looking for something casual. He wants the girlfriend. He wants her.
What follows is a slow, scorching dismantling of everything Nicole told herself she didn't need. Gabriel feeds her, respects her, handles her loud and loving friends without flinching, and shows up with a consistency she doesn't know what to do with. The age gap that should feel like the dealbreaker turns out to be the least complicated thing between them.
The real complication is Nicole herself. She knows how to survive disappointment. She doesn't know how to trust that this time, someone might actually stay.

The Girlfriend Experience is a steamy, emotionally rich Black contemporary romance about a woman who built a whole life around not needing to be chosen, and the man determined to change her mind.

Perfect for fans of:

• Age Gap Romance (Older Woman / Younger Man)
• Workplace Romance
• Steamy Black Contemporary Romance
• "He Falls First" & Emotionally Mature Heroes
• Fierce Female Friendships (Found Family)
• No Miscommunication (Just Real Emotional Vulnerability)