Handle With Care
(2025)(The first book in the Hollybrooke Daddies series)
A novel by Kieran Lark and Leo Rivers
He's spent his whole life denying what he wants. This Christmas, someone's offering it to him.
Deeply closeted corporate heir Christian Ashford has one job this Christmas: help his father acquire Hollybrooke Resort. He's not here to fall for the hot, older maintenance guy. The one with the knowing smile and the callused hands. The one who makes Christian feel seen in a way that terrifies him.
Hayes Reid—experienced, rugged, and the man who owns Hollybrooke—hasn't corrected Christian's little misunderstanding about who he is. Watching the ice prince melt every time Hayes gets close is too much fun... and Hayes can tell there's someone real under all that polish. Someone who's never let himself want anything just for himself.
Soon, Hayes has a problem. He was supposed to be playing a game. Instead, he's falling for the man who came here to destroy everything he's built.
Handle With Care is a holiday daddy kink novella featuring enemies to lovers, mistaken identity, and a daddy who lets you dig your own grave before he wrecks you. It's part of the Hollybrooke Daddies series, but can be read as a standalone.
TROPES:
- Daddykink (without age play)
Age gap
Enemies to lovers
Gay awakening
Secret identity
Praise kink
Forbidden romance
Competence kink
Touch starved
Holiday romance
Genre: Gay Romance
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