Shifting Tides

They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions. They're wrong. It's paved with lies, surprises, and sins of omission...

Aila Peterson is living the dream. Her life can't get any better between her career as a nurse practitioner and raising her five-year-old daughter. Or so it seems until the sudden death of Sofie's birth mother exposes that her perfect life is built on betrayal and deception. Not only did Abby lie about Sofie's biological father not wanting her, but she never told him that she was pregnant in the first place.

Unless you count the letter that her attorney delivered in person to billionaire businessman Nolan Bishop after her death.

While it's not his fault he's been MIA for the first five years, Aila doesn't want Sofie's father intimately involved in their lives. He's a womanizing, globe-trotting business mogul. Not prime daddy material in her opinion. However, she isn't foolish enough to believe she can defeat him in a custody battle. Fortunately, Bishop is a reasonable man, so it likely won't come to that.

Not unless she answers the question hanging between them wrong...

(Previously published as a spicier, non-explicit contemporary stand-alone, A Necessary Convenience by Tori Lennox)