One night with First Lieutenant Tom Seaver was supposed to scratch an itch, not rearrange Naddy Brooks’s entire life.

She has an eight-year-old son to raise, bills she can barely pay, and absolutely no interest in falling for a Marine whose job can take him away without warning. Tom was supposed to be sex.

Then he kept showing up.

He fixes her dying car, wins over her kid, fills her empty fridge, and somehow turns a casual fling into motorcycle rides, Sunday ice cream, late-night arguments, and a life that starts feeling dangerously like home.

Tom Seaver knows how to compartmentalize. It’s how he survives a career built on classified work, sudden deployments, and never promising more than he can control.

Naddy and her son make that impossible. What starts as something temporary becomes the one part of his life Tom can’t keep at a distance. And the closer they get, the harder it becomes to leave them behind every time duty calls.

Off Base is a steamy, emotional military romance about a fiercely independent single mom, a guarded Marine officer, an accidental family, scorching chemistry, and two people who never meant to become each other’s home.**