He's football's golden boy with a media disaster problem. She's the no-nonsense PR rookie assigned to fix it. Too bad she's been in love with him since she was thirteen. Davis Jennings is thirty-six, the starting quarterback for the Baltimore Ravens, and a walking tabloid headline. Between press blowups, locker room drama, and management breathing down his neck, retirement is no longer a whisper-it's a demand. If he wants any shot at ending his career on his own terms, he needs help. Fast. Enter Bethany Conn-Hart: newly minted PR associate, crisis management prodigy, and niece of Davis's best friend. Her first assignment? Babysit the man she once named her childhood diary after. The same man who just called her "kid" in front of an ESPN reporter. Bethany's determined to prove she's more than a last-name hire. Davis is determined not to notice that the little girl who once spilled juice on his cleats is now a sharp-tongued, bossy, dangerously gorgeous adult. But when an old crush meets very new chemistry, and sparks fly on and off camera, the line between personal and professional blurs fast. Especially when the whole world is watching. She's got one job: protect his image. He's got one problem: he can't stop thinking about her.

Everett James has spent twenty-five years pulling Alexandra Weston out of one disaster after another. She's chaos, he's calm, and somehow, they've always worked. When Alex's latest crisis threatens to upend her life, Everett offers the only solution that makes sense: marry him. Just on paper. No strings. But a month in Italy with the woman he's never stopped loving is a dangerous plan. Especially when the past comes calling, and "no strings" starts to feel impossible. A sharp, witty friends-to-lovers romance with a marriage of convenience, long-buried feelings, and one secret that changes everything.

Widower/secret baby trope