The Grumpy Tycoon

Dr. Grant Mercer saves children for a living. He cannot save a Tuesday. When his daughter's sitter quits mid-week, Seattle's most decorated pediatric surgeon hires the first applicant through the door. Jules Calloway is late, overqualified in the wrong ways, and the only person in the room who makes Poppy laugh. She also grew up two blocks from the Mercer estate — and remembers exactly who left and who stayed. Grant runs his life like an operating theater. Sterile. Scheduled. Closed. Jules runs hers like a kitchen at a holiday — loud, crowded, alive. She should be a disaster for him. She is, at first. Then she isn't. But between a hospital gala, a custody threat, and a two-week notice Grant never saw coming, one of them has to be brave enough to stay. The other has to be brave enough to leave. A slow-burn single dad billionaire doctor romance for readers who like their grumps with a scalpel and their heroines with an exit plan.