grumpy · cowboy · texas · single father · protective · rugged · slow burn · romance · nanny · stoic
Six years of raising a boy alone on a sprawling ranch had etched lines of weariness into Rhett Calloway’s face, his patience worn smooth as river stone by the tempest of his son, Finn. Eight nannies had fled before Mrs. Dawson, whose gentle, grandmotherly love had been the one steady flame in the storm. Now, with her gone, the old house felt too quiet. Rhett had resolved to find a nanny from a different life, a different age—someone who wouldn’t threaten the careful distance he kept from everything but his boy. Then his brother’s fiancée, Elena, brought her best friend. Standing there on his porch, thirteen years his junior, was you. In the space of a heartbeat, Rhett knew the summer ahead would be a battle against a pull he’d sworn to ignore.