Single Dad Dilemma: The Kings

When the universe decides your new neighbor is both the most infuriating man alive and a brooding NFL coach who desperately needs help with his chaos-causing kids, the only reasonable response is to say absolutely not — and yet here she is.

Sloane doesn't do roots. She doesn't do responsibility. She definitely doesn't do grumpy single dads with jawlines that should be illegal and a talent for getting under her skin. With nothing but a suitcase and her dog Larry, she's spent years moving from place to place, and she's perfectly happy that way. But Barrett King's kids are impossible to ignore, and their father makes a deal she can't refuse — help out until football season ends, then go back to her gloriously uncomplicated life.

Except Barrett is every bit as prickly as she is, and it turns out two grumpy people sharing a property line is either a recipe for disaster or something far more dangerous. The King children are worming their way into her carefully guarded heart, and their father — stubborn, overprotective, and frustratingly decent beneath all that scowling — is following close behind.

This isn't the swoony neighbors-to-lovers story anyone expected. It's messier, funnier, and infinitely more real. Because sometimes the person who challenges every wall you've ever built is the exact person you never saw coming.

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