AWARD WINNER FOR EXCELLENCE IN WRITING: The BookFest 20232nd Romantic Comedy2nd Place Women’s Fiction (General)HALLMARK STYLE ROCKSTAR ROMANCE WITH SIZZLE! Annabeth aka ‘Carson’ Lee is the high powered executive VP of a Fortune 500 Ad Agency. After suffering the heartbreak of a husband who left her and their two children for a younger woman, she decided then and there to create the ‘perfect’ life for her family on her own terms. No nonsense, level-headed and determined to make it on her own without the help of any man ever again, she’s climbed the ladder of success and built a life that is a fast paced but orderly ‘to-do’ list that balances work and motherhood. With a beautiful home, soccer practices and ballet lessons for the kids, and full-time housekeeper/childcare duties fulfilled by her childhood best friend, Skye, life seems safe, complete and most of all secure. Until the day the most important in-person business meeting of her career is hours away and her bestie comes down with Covid and can’t stay at home with the kids. With no immediate family nearby and no one she trusts, Carson has little choice but to say ‘yes’ when Skye offers to send her brother Slade to take care of the kids and the house in her place. Unemployed with few options because of the recently cancelled tour with his rock band....Slade is the last person on earth Carson would have thought of for the job. Her memories of his youth…the wild parties and a different woman on his arm every night, coupled with the fact that she’d never forgotten the embarrassment and humiliation she’d felt when he’d laughed at her when she’d expressed interest in him as a teen were enough to make her never want to see his face again. But here and now, all these years later, with her flight scheduled, minutes ticking on the clock and a multi-million dollar contract on the line, she has no other options other than her bestie’s word that Slade will take care of everything and her kids and the house will be safe. They were grown ups now after all, and it had just been a silly teen infatuation that was a million years ago in the past, and this was just for couple days. Her life is stable and there’s nothing he could possibly do to tear that down...or the walls she’d carefully built around her heart. Right? But after seeing him in person again after all these years, Carson soon discovers that Slade is no longer the wild and reckless boy he once was. Now, as she gets to know the man he is today, her walls are crumbling fast.