His to Serve

He has run the same diner for twenty years. She was supposed to stay three months.

Tessa is twenty-one, broke, and done taking up space. She takes the waitress job at Malone’s Diner because it’s the only one in town, and she spends every shift trying to make herself smaller: tugging at her shirt, skipping meals, apologizing for a body she has hated since she was fourteen.

Frank Malone is forty-five, gruff, and the kind of man who notices everything and says almost nothing. He notices she never eats. He notices the way she hides. And he notices, far more than a boss should, the curves she keeps trying to cover.

He feeds her. He tells her the truth. He tells her to stop apologizing.

Then one night after closing, she kisses him first.

In a small town where everybody talks, a secret between the owner and the new girl can’t stay secret for long. The regulars are noticing, the diner is losing customers, and Frank is about to learn that the only thing harder than wanting her is letting her go.

A standalone forbidden age-gap romance in the Forbidden Desires series, with a grumpy, devoted older hero, a curvy heroine learning to take up space, a small-town diner, a baby on the way, and a guaranteed happily ever after. No cheating, no cliffhanger. Contains explicit sexual content and a dominant/submissive dynamic. Intended for readers 18 and over.