Entangled by Moonlight by Aurora Everen

Fate doesn't knock. It moves in next door, picks up a hammer, and starts fixing what's broken including her. Elena Cruz has no time for love. Between grading papers until midnight and a funding review that could end her career, she's barely holding her life together and she likes it that way. Safe. Manageable. Alone. Then a quiet carpenter walks into her classroom to fix a broken desk, and Elena's careful world tilts on its axis. Adrian Holt isn't just steady hands and a soft smile. He's a man running from a past he can't outrun forever a secret buried so deep that if Elena ever saw the truth, she might never look at him the same way again. But fate has plans of its own. Stolen glances turn into shared sunrises on a forest trail. A friendship neither of them meant to start becomes something neither of them can walk away from. And every time Adrian gets close to the truth slipping out, the moon seems to be listening. When danger creeps into Willow Creek and Adrian's past comes hunting for him Elena will have to decide: run from the man who terrifies and comforts her in the same breath... or stay, and discover that the thing she feared most might be the love she never knew she needed. Some secrets howl louder than words. Some love stories are written in moonlight.