The Single Dad Grump Next Door
(2025)(A book in the Stuck Together In Mermaid Shores series)
A novel by Andrea Ocean
He’s my grumpy arch enemy, my fiercest competitor, and… my next door neighbor for the summer.
On leave from my career as a concert violinist due to a debilitating injury, I’m looking for solace.
I never expect I’ll be sharing a duplex with my arch enemy, grumpy Gabe Sterling.
The billionaire, award-winning composer, is sure to taunt me mercilessly.
Instead, sharing his own vulnerabilities rocks my defenses.
Constantly drawn together by his endearing daughter, I start to see the Gabe that everyone else sees. Unguarded, laughing… mesmerizing.
Practicing through my pain at midnight on the beach, his presence is comforting.
And in the silence stretching between us during a moonlit stroll, it’s finally clear.
I made Gabe the villain to avoid seeing what he really means to me.
But the intensity of my true feelings still scares me.
If I can’t muster the courage to show him how I really feel, the glimpse of what could have been will haunt me forever.
Genre: Romance
On leave from my career as a concert violinist due to a debilitating injury, I’m looking for solace.
I never expect I’ll be sharing a duplex with my arch enemy, grumpy Gabe Sterling.
The billionaire, award-winning composer, is sure to taunt me mercilessly.
Instead, sharing his own vulnerabilities rocks my defenses.
Constantly drawn together by his endearing daughter, I start to see the Gabe that everyone else sees. Unguarded, laughing… mesmerizing.
Practicing through my pain at midnight on the beach, his presence is comforting.
And in the silence stretching between us during a moonlit stroll, it’s finally clear.
I made Gabe the villain to avoid seeing what he really means to me.
But the intensity of my true feelings still scares me.
If I can’t muster the courage to show him how I really feel, the glimpse of what could have been will haunt me forever.
Genre: Romance
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