Series: Birdsong Trilogy Author: Nina Lane Genre: Contemporary Forbidden Romance Tropes: Age Gap, Teacher/Student Father's Best Friend SPARROW & HAWKE He shouldn’t touch her. Nell Fairchild knows how to survive. How to stay quiet, stay invisible, keep the worst parts of herself hidden. She’s good at it. She’s not good at Darius Hawke. Her father’s oldest friend. A war photographer with a dangerous past, a talent for disappearing, and eyes that see far too much. Darius knows better than to want Nell. She’s too young, too vulnerable, and completely off-limits. He’s spent a lifetime navigating war zones, captivity, and the darkest corners of human nature. The last thing he should do is drag his best friend’s daughter into his shadows. But some lines were made to be crossed. And when Darius takes a temporary teaching job at Nell’s high school, staying away isn’t an option. She’s everywhere — too close, too tempting, too determined to draw him out of the darkness. And the m...