My Older Girlfriend

Eighteen-year-old Noah Mendes has just finished high school, and his own parents' divorce left him working a factory assembly line in the apartment they left behind. When his classmate Liam Knowles asks for help, Noah agrees: Liam's mother, Claire River, is fighting with her husband and talking about divorce, and Liam wants Noah to talk her out of it.

But the first sight of Claire stops Noah cold. Elegant, mature, dressed to draw the eye, she is everything the girls his age are not. When she breaks down in his arms over a husband who spends his money on other women and ignores Liam's tuition, comfort turns into something far more dangerous, and Claire pulls away only after it has already gone too far.

When the divorce becomes official, Claire is single, and Noah's old empathy gives way to a fixation he cannot shake. He finds excuses to visit, watches her whenever she is near, and decides he must have her. Then, on the day of a planned hike, Liam is nowhere to be found, and a faint sound draws Noah toward a closed bedroom door.