My Best Friend's Silver Fox Dad

The storm knocked the power out at nine seventeen on a Tuesday night, and I put both hands flat on my best friend's father's bare chest in the dark before I ever learned whose name I'd just gasped.

He needed a landscape architect for the fight of his career. I needed to stop noticing the exact shade of gray at his temples every time he leaned over a blueprint.

I told myself it was just a job.
I was wrong.

Marcus Elliot didn't bring me onto the biggest project of his career to fall for me. He brought me on to save the last honest stretch of waterfront our town had left, before a man with more money than conscience paved over it for good.

I'd spent years building a reputation as the girl who never let herself want the wrong thing. I never once planned on wanting my best friend's widowed father instead.

And then his daughter found an earring on his nightstand that wasn't her mother's-

He wasn't just the man who used to drive us to the mall as kids anymore. He was the secret about to detonate the only family I had left.

I stayed anyway.

Now the whole town has a vote to cast on the wharf that brought us together, his daughter needs a kind of forgiveness neither of us can rush, and the only way through any of it is through the man who taught me exactly how far he'll go, and how quietly, for the people he loves.

He calls it doing right by his daughter.

I call it the last impossible line standing between us and the life we're both already choosing, whether either of us says so out loud yet or not.

MY BEST FRIEND'S SILVER FOX DAD is a full-length, slow-burn contemporary romance featuring a forbidden best-friend's-father, age-gap small-town love story and alternating first-person POV. A standalone novel. No cheating. No cliffhanger. A hard-won, guaranteed happily ever after.