Involuntary Daddy — Tressie Lockwood

Author's Note: This interracial romance is steamy, but it is also CLEAN.

Gabriel Reiss' business is home improvement, but when his twin asks him to work in his Daddy Day Care for one day, that's the last thing Gabe wants to do. He's steered clear of kids ever since the tragedy of five years ago when his heart was destroyed. Now Gabriel keeps his distance from women with kids, and he lets anyone he meets know it will never be serious between them. He doesn't want a family--ever. Then Gabe meets Neeka and her three-year-old daughter Monnie.

Unique "Neeka" Desmond is only interested in helping her daughter overcome her social anxiety. She refuses to repeat the mistakes of the past like getting involved with a man who's rough around the edges, who's arrogant and thinks only of himself and what he wants. That's what Monnie's dad was like, and she won't fall for a man like that again. That is, until she meets Gabriel. He's angry, outspoken, opinionated, mean, and smoking hot. Worse, he makes friends with Monnie in one day then has the nerve to ask Neeka out on a date.

There can't be anything between them, but trouble from the past comes knocking, and Neeka needs a stand-in daddy--even if it's an involuntary one.