Rooming with the Grump: An Age Gap, Forced Proximity Romance. The Unexpected Daddies Series

He has seven rules. I have thirty days and nowhere else to go. When a desperate housing search lands Jade Monroe in Cole Bennett's glass-and-steel lake house, the gruff, older tech investor makes one thing clear: no drama, no noise, no touching. Easy.until a midnight storm, a broken AC, and one extremely inconvenient one-bed situation turn "temporary" into combustible. Cole builds systems; Jade breaks patterns.
Their days become a tug-of-war of quiet routines and bright, teasing chaos-until a stolen kiss on the water burns through every boundary. But Jade's future is uncertain, Cole's past is a locked room, and the clock on their one-month agreement is ticking. When outside complications and old wounds push them apart, they'll have to decide if breaking the rules means losing the only safe place they've found-or choosing something real and forever.
Grumpy/sunshine. Age gap. Forced proximity. Lake-house slow burn that turns scorching-with heart, banter, and a melt-the-grump payoff.