The Daddy Contract - A Father with Secrets A Woman Who Sees Through Him

Savannah LeRoux

Synopsis

When Ava takes a live-in nanny job for a quiet single father, she expects long hours and a wary child. She doesn’t expect Ethan intense, magnetic, and hard to read. His son, Caleb, hides behind silence, and Ethan’s own walls are just as solid.

Still, Ava’s steady warmth slips into the cracks. A smile at the breakfast table. A story that makes Caleb laugh. With every small moment, father and son let her in, and Ethan’s careful distance begins to falter. She sees the weight he carries, and the longing in his eyes when he forgets to look away.

Ethan knows opening up is dangerous. He’s already lost too much, and his past is more tangled than Ava could guess. Yet each laugh she shares with Caleb, each stolen glance across the living room, pulls him closer to what he swore he’d never risk again.

As desire sharpens and old wounds resurface, both must choose: step into something real or retreat behind walls built too high to climb.

Can love survive the silence of fear, or will it collapse under the weight of pride?

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Their story is one of many in CRAVE HER SHADE, where men built on control fall for women who won’t bend.

They said he had it all power, control, the polished image. But the second he saw her, that picture cracked. She wasn’t like anyone he’d ever touched. Her laugh cut through his rules. Her skin felt like a storm he couldn’t outlast.

“CRAVE HER SHADE” is a raw, unflinching collection of steamy interracial romances where bold Black women upend the lives of men who thought they were untouchable. These stories don’t circle around desire they step straight into it. From billionaire boardrooms to late-night Vegas heat, from hidden protection to obsession that borders on dangerous, each standalone tale shows what happens when men built on control meet the one woman who makes them lose it.

Some want her confidence. Some flinch at her strength. All of them crave her in ways they can’t undo. White CEO, Asian tech founder, Native warrior different faces, same truth: she isn’t theirs to claim. But that doesn’t stop them from wanting her anyway.

Because once you’ve tasted her shade, nothing else comes close.

Disponible depuis: 13/08/2025.

Longueur d'impression: 65 pages.

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