Busted

Awkward: My dad's best friend realizing he's inspired all my books' sexy heroes…

Navy Commander Aiden McBride is a stern and serious surgeon — and a dangerously handsome older man — but I swear I didn't plan on turning my secret fantasies into a series of steamy romance novels.

But here we are, and my books are flying off the virtual shelves. I'm living the dream!

Nothing will ever come of my secret crush, of course — because I may be an accidental romance author and perpetual daydreamer, but I'm also smarter than that.

Until Aiden confronts me about my first book, the one that accidentally identified him by a very private tattoo, and suddenly my fictional world collides with reality.

(Also my heart with my stomach.)

He says he'll cure me of my schoolgirl crush, and he might succeed. He says I should move on and write a different kind of hero, and he's probably right about that. He says he's too old and jaded for someone like me.

He couldn't be more wrong. 

Aiden and I might be at different stages in life, but the chemistry between us is the kind that could fill a thousand steamy novels.

How can I convince him that this love story deserves a real-life HEA?