Mister West

A small town, forced proximity, billionaire romance. When tragedy struck, my life unraveled in a single breath. One moment, I was Mel Swanson-marketing manager, photographer, woman with a plan. The next, I was standing at my best friends funeral, holding their baby boy and trying to understand how I became a mother overnight.Another minor detail-I wasn't doing it alone. Gray West-the town's favorite scandal. Billionaire builder. Heartbreaker with a smile that could melt reason and ruin lives. We're joint guardians to Carter. Partners in chaos. Forced under one roof by a promise we never thought we'd have to keep.Gray's everything I've spent my adult life avoiding-unpredictable, magnetic, impossible to read. The longer we live together, the harder it is to ignore the man beneath the reputation. The tenderness behind the swagger. The way fatherhood softens him... and the way he looks at me like he's already fallen.I should know better. Falling for him would risk everything I've fought to build. But every time he shows up-every time he chooses us-I start to wonder if maybe love isn't the disaster I've always believed it to be. And Gray West might be the one man who makes me want to risk it all.