The Mysterious One: The Weston Group Series, Book 3

The grumpiest man in a billion-dollar empire is about to meet the one woman immune to his storms.

Cole is the executive chef and iron-fisted face of his family's culinary dynasty—a man who runs his kitchen with cold precision and zero patience for anyone who can't keep up. He's earned every reputation that precedes him: relentless, demanding, impossible. And after years of pouring everything into an empire that's slowly suffocated his passion, he's inches away from walking away from all of it.

Then Alivia walks in.

She's warm where he's cold, effortlessly bright where he's deliberately dark—the kind of woman who shouldn't make sense next to someone like him. What starts as a mutually convenient arrangement between two consenting adults quickly becomes something far more inconvenient. She sees through his armor with infuriating ease, and he can't decide whether he wants to push her away or pull her impossibly close.

In this steamy contemporary romance from USA Today bestselling author Marni Mann, the third installment in The Weston Group Series turns up the heat with a slow-burn age-gap tension that builds to a delicious breaking point. Close quarters, clashing personalities, and undeniable chemistry force two people who should never work to question everything they thought they wanted.

Cole has spent years bending the world to his will. The real question is whether Alivia is the reason he finally stops—or the reason he starts over.