Standalone

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When Noah Callahan arrives in Portland with a graduate fellowship and two duffel bags, he expects his new landlady to be a minor fact of his life — someone who collects the rent and fixes the plumbing.

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Diane Mercer is fifty years old, a senior architect, and the most self-possessed person he has ever shared a building with. She designs everything she touches, including, one October evening, the arrangement she proposes to her twenty-four-year-old tenant: she will visit him when she needs to. The focus will be on her pleasure. There will be no romance involved.

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Noah agrees. He is, by nature, a patient and attentive man — and Diane Mercer turns out to be a woman worth paying close attention to.

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What follows is a slow unraveling of everything both of them thought they had under control.

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Diane keeps the terms. She keeps her distance. She keeps telling herself this is a practical solution to a practical problem, right up until the moment she can't anymore — until a crescent earring left on a windowsill, a New Year's Eve in the cold, and the particular way he asks if she's all right begin to accumulate into something her careful life has no framework for.

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The Landlady is an explicit, slow-burn erotic romance about power, patience, and what happens when a woman who has spent years building the perfect life for one discovers she may have left someone out.

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For mature readers only. Contains explicit sexual content between consenting adults.

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The Landlady

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