Rivals in Restraint
Kathleen Haley
Yet while deferral and discord feed desire, they also feed doubt, and Nan and Thomas come to doubt themselves as they fall more deeply in love. As Nan throws herself into composing music and Thomas expands his bar into a restaurant, the two of them find that love has the power to transform them in surprising ways. Nan learns to cede control and compromise, even as Thomas discovers that love can be selfless and that it involves not just asserting one's will but submitting.
This contemporary romance mines the topics of mental health and sexual desire to unearth what two people can learn about the power of love as they repeatedly test one another.