Book Title: Unmanageable
Author: Leslie McAdam
Publisher: Heart Eyes Press, LLC
Release Date: September 13, 2022
Genre: Contemporary M/M Romance
Tropes: Single dad/nanny, grumpy/sunshine, age gap, small town, wine bar
Themes: Romance matters!
Length: 70 000 words/ 268 pages
Heat Rating: 5 flames
It is a standalone story in the In Vino Veritas series and does not end on a cliffhanger.
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Blurb
I’ve never been romantic. Just ask my ex-wife.
Since she broke up with me, I get my needs met any time I want, without putting my heart on the line. Exactly how I like it.
But when she is called overseas and leaves me with our child, my bachelor lifestyle ends faster than you can say, “Daddy, I want a pony.”
I need help.
Problem is, help’s come in the form of an incredibly hot nanny.
My employee.
Who is much younger than me.
And also … a guy.
I watch Scott care for my kid and can’t help feeling like he clicks into place in her life.
When he looks at me, though … I get an entirely different feeling. One that makes me long for things I can’t have.
Like him.
Unmanageable is a contemporary m/m age gap romance about a starry-eyed nanny who wants hot-air balloon rides and singing telegrams and a grumpy single dad who most definitely does not.
Murph bounds up to me, clapping his hands, when I return to V and V. Jason, Jeremy, and Aaron are gone, but he looks eager to chat. “Did you get the job?”
I shrug and hand him back his keys. “I dunno. I think it went well. He’s going to contact my references and get back to me.” I cough. “I gave him your number.”
“As you should.” He twists his hands. “Sooo, what was single dad with a hot voice like?”
“A veritable smorgasbord of masculine pulchritude.”
Murph stares.
“Dude, he owes me a new pair of pants, he’s so fucking hot,” I groan. “I’m gonna think of him as hotsexyboss the whole time. If I get the job, that is.”
“Yes!” Murph squeals, grabbing my sleeve and tugging me closer. “Tell me. Tell me, tell me.”
I sigh. “I think he’s straight. The job is to care for his daughter. I don’t know the story as to why he has her, but he seems overwhelmed.”
“Oh.” Murph waves a hand. “You can make him whelmed easily.”
“Whelmed?”
“So he’s not overwhelm— Never mind. I want to hear the part where he’s sexy.”
I think about our brief interaction and how I had to battle not to stare at him. “He has the Joe Manganiello smolder thing going on. My height, but bigger and older than me—although not, like, old enough to be my dad.”
“So just, like, a daddy.”
That does funny things to my insides.
He sniffs. “Shame if he’s straight. That is, shame for you. Good news for women, I suppose. It’s always fun to work with a hottie, even if there’s no touchy-touchy. I mean, I enjoy the scenery around here.” He gestures to the bar where Tanner, the large, tatted beast of a manager, stands behind the counter, frowning at the cash register.
“Scenery is one thing. It’s a bad idea to hook up where you work, though.”
“Speak for yourself,” Oz says, smirking, as he passes by with a tray of wine glasses. Oz and his partner, Reeve, have both worked at V and V.
“Present company excluded, I guess,” I say.
Murph tilts his head to the side. “Did hottie daddy say how much he’d pay if he hired you?”
My cheeks heat up. “Um, no. Actually, I never asked him that. God, I’m really bad at job hunting.”
“You have time to learn. Was he nice?”
I let out my breath. “I don’t know. He was gruff. But he wasn’t mean or anything. His daughter was the cutest thing in the world, and she hung on his every word, so he has to be a nice guy, right?”
“She was cute?”
“Adorable. Imaginative. I want to see her use that creativity to soar.”
“So maybe you’re the daddy in this relationship,” Murph muses.
This needs to stop. I’m not going to think about my potential boss that way. I am not. “Okay, first, it’s not a relationship. Straight would-be boss is probably straight. And second, it’s just a job. A way to get myself out of debt—hopefully. If I get hired.”
Leslie McAdam is a California girl who loves romance and well-defined abs. She lives in a drafty old farmhouse on a small orange tree farm in Southern California with her husband and two children. Leslie’s first published book, The Sun and the Moon, won a 2015 Watty, which is the world’s largest online writing competition. She’s gone on to receive additional literary awards and has been featured in multiple publications, including Cosmopolitan.com. Her books have been Top 100 Bestsellers on both Amazon and Apple Books. Leslie is employed by day but spends her nights writing about the men of your fantasies.
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