A chance encounter between two childhood friends, Hercules and Paisley, reignites their forbidden love and challenges their families' bitter feud.

He calls me PG, and my heart skips a beat.

Nobody calls me that but Hercules Lord, the boy, now a man, I've had a crush on since high school.

We could never be together, though. A romance between us is strictly forbidden. The Lords are old money, and my family, the Groves, are new money—and the Groves and the Lords don't mingle. The hate between our families runs deep enough to create an invisible line in the sand that neither of us ever dared to cross.

But that's never stopped us from staring at each other from across a crowded room. And we've always been friends.

Oh! There was that one night seven years ago. I bet Hercules doesn't know that he's my first.

Yet here we are again, gazing into each other's eyes.

But tonight feels different.

We're both adults, fully capable of choosing our own paths.

And our desire for each other wants to defy any restraint.

So truly, honestly... What will happen if we finally and irrevocably cross the line?

Crossing the Line is the first book in the Lords of Manhattan series. This novel can be read as a standalone and ends happily ever after.