He’s twenty-four years older.

She’s the first thing that’s made him feel alive in years.

Dale Jensen is a man of suits, silence, and secrets—respected in the boardroom, lonely in the kitchen. At fifty-seven, he’s accepted a life of restraint and regret… until Melissa Reynolds crashes into it with her mismatched socks, offbeat humor, and the kind of honesty that strips a man bare.

She’s twenty-three.

Too young. Too bright. Too everything he isn’t.

But she sees him. The real him.

And when the walls fall—slowly, then all at once—neither of them is ready for how deep it goes.

This isn’t a sugar daddy fantasy.

It’s messier. Sharper. More than sugar.

A raw, redemptive, and deliciously intimate story about age gaps, emotional baggage, complicated pleasure—and the courage it takes to be fully seen.