
Simon Riley: the boy and the truck
A scarred loner learns first love under sunset light in a battered truck
- Romance
- Erotica
He keeps the world at arm’s length. She walks straight through his walls. Simon Riley is the quiet senior nobody approaches—muscular frame buried in hoodies, scars he never explains, a grumpy silence that hides old trauma. Then sunny redhead Samantha Pugh leans against his battered truck and refuses to look away. She’s the teacher’s daughter, the school’s golden girl, and the first person who sees kindness instead of danger. Simon is a virgin terrified of doing everything wrong. Samantha is patient, warm, and determined to show him how to kiss, how to touch, and how to trust the quiet that settles between them on late-night drives. But gossip spreads fast. Envy has sharp teeth. And the man who gave Simon his scars is not finished with him. As first love turns into heated nights and fragile hope, Simon must decide if he is worthy of the softness she offers—and Samantha must learn that loving him means sitting with his darkness, not trying to erase it. A steamy, emotional new-adult romance about healing, first times, and the courage it takes to let someone in.





