The Grumpy Godfather

Dr. Milo Ferrante has spent his whole life fixing bones for a living and feelings never. He has a motorcycle he does not ride, a penthouse he does not use, and a goddaughter who has just been handed to him in a manila envelope at eleven o'clock at night. Birdie is five. She has not spoken since her mother died. Milo's first instinct is to schedule her — appointments, specialists, a plan — and Birdie's child psychologist, Dr. Priya Raman, informs him in the first session that Birdie is not a fracture. Priya is a single mother, a professional, and utterly unimpressed by the Ferrante Foundation. She is also the only person who does not look at Milo like he is either a saint or a disaster for taking Birdie in. Over a year of the wrong cereal, the right sign language, and a hospital board that wants him back on the schedule yesterday, Milo builds a home he never expected. He also builds something quieter and worse: the feeling of standing next to Priya in a school parking lot, wanting a life that has nothing to do with surgery. A single dad billionaire doctor therapist romance about two people who were already doing the work.