A Little Crush: A Slow-Burn Best Friend's Little Sister Single Dad Romance (The Little Things Book 6)

★★★★★ "A very anticipated read for me. I had been awaiting Jaxon and Rory's book from the little Easter eggs through the entire series — and it did not disappoint. It was bittersweet that it was the end, but it did not disappoint." — Amazon ReviewerSeems the little girl who had a crush on me is all grown up.Rory Buchanan ran away from Lockwood Heights a decade ago.Not because she had to. Because of me.She was too young to know better when she told me she loved me. I was her brother's best friend, graduating from LAU, and far too old for her to be saying anything like that to me. So, I let her down the only way I knew how.She got on a plane soon after and didn't come back.Now her brother Maverick is getting married.Of course she's coming home.Of course she walks back into Lockwood Heights looking like that.And of course she wants absolutely nothing to do with me.Which would be fine. I deserve it. I have more important things to worry about than how grown up Rory Buchanan is anyway.Like the four-month-old at home who's barely sleeping. Like the head coach job I just signed for the Lions — my dad's old team, my dad's old jersey, more pressure than I should be carrying alone. Like my ex-wife, who treats my custody schedule like a chess piece every time she's bored.I have more than enough on my plate.Then Rory walks in on my ex tearing into me on her parents' front porch. My daughter strapped into her car seat, my hands tied behind my back, my carefully held-together life unraveling at twenty paces.And before I can stop her, Rory plants herself between us, looks my ex dead in the eye, and announces she's my new nanny.I didn't hire her.She didn't ask.But the second she says it, my ex backs down...and Rory Buchanan officially becomes the most dangerous problem in my life.She's in my kitchen every morning. She watches my daughter every day. She travels with the team when I have road games, which means hotel rooms with one crib, two adults, and a four-month-old who only sleeps when Rory holds her.She spends every waking hour reminding me what I gave up the day she boarded that plane, and what I'm not allowed to want now that she's back.She still won't look at me like she did when she was younger.But she's not running anymore, either.And I'm starting to wonder if I'll survive what happens when she finally stops pretending I don't exist.A Slow-Burn Best Friend's Little Sister Single Dad Romance Heat Level: Open Door / Explicit POV: Dual First Person Setting: Lockwood Heights — home of the NHL Lions Book 6 of The Little Things series — the finale of the Lockwood Heights saga Ending: HEA — no cliffhangerPerfect for readers who love Elsie Silver's Flawless, Lauren Asher's Final Offer, and Lyla Sage's Lost and Lassoed — single dad heroes carrying more than they can hold, heroines whose loyalty is bigger than their resentment, and the slow-burn second-chance payoff that closes a saga the right way.Rory is Henry and Mia Buchanan's daughter; Jaxon is Colt and Ashlyn Thorne's son. Their parents' love stories begin in Don't Let Me Fall — and end here, with the next generation finally home.The Little Things series ends with A Little Crush. Read more