A very spicy secret baby romance featuring golden retriever/black cat energy, opposites attract, emotional angst, and a hero who falls first and never lets go.

She pushed away the one man who chose her—and lied about their child to make sure he stayed gone.

Cameron

The first time I laid eyes on Tally Steele was across the flower-strewn aisle at my brother Max’s wedding.

Something electric shot through me.

Her sleeve of tattoos caught the light when she raised a champagne glass, rainbow-tipped hair falling across one eye as she whispered something that made the bride double over laughing.

Nothing like the women I usually bring to charity galas.

My world is medical conferences and family trust funds.

Hers is tattoo needles and a childhood that never gave her anything steady.

None of that matters.

Because from the moment I saw her, I was already gone.

Even if she tried to keep my baby a secret from me.

Tally

I don’t deserve someone like Cameron.

He’s Johns Hopkins Medical School with a side of chiseled jawline. I’m a tattoo artist with a past I can’t outrun.

Every time he looks at me, I wait for the moment he realizes his mistake.

So when he tells me he’s leaving for Doctors Without Borders, I let him go.

I help him go.

Then the pregnancy test happens.

Two pink lines that change everything… and nothing.

I tell him the baby isn’t his.

I tell myself it’s the right thing.

Even when he comes back.

Even when he looks at our daughter like she’s his whole world.

Even when it feels like I’m breaking something I’ll never be able to fix.

He chose her from the start.

She made sure he walked away.

But when the truth comes out, she might lose the only man who ever loved her—and the family she never believed she deserved.