Grumpy Jake

Bailey
Thorne doesn’t hate Jake the Rake, just despises him. She blames the rumor mill
at her school…and, okay, him. His adorable son has only been in
preschool, but Jake has already made an impressive dent in
dating the unmarried faculty. She’s had to hear of his every exploit from the
broken hearts he’s left behind. She was fine to loathe him from afar, but now
his son has entered kindergarten—and she’s the teacher. It’s going to be a very
long school year.

Jake
Polaski was more than fine to avoid Ms. Thorne after it became clear she was
not amused by his very existence. But then they get stuck in an elevator for an
evening. He finds out that underneath that baleful glare she always
gives him, lies a warm, funny and sexy as hell woman. He does his best to not
be smitten after every exchange afterward. His son needs him rational,
steadfast...and love is the most uncertain thing.

It
was the elevator’s fault. Had it worked like it should, Bailey would have gone
on with her life without seeing why so many of her co-workers had fallen for
the grumpy single dad. (It’s his dry wit, his playful teasing and the
drool-worthy cut of his jawline.) And now she’s caught in the way he doles out
smiles and the dark depths of his secrets. If nothing else, she knows from
rumor there’s a clock ticking on their affair before it implodes, because
things always do with Jake the Rake, but she can’t seem to walk away first.