The House Manager - Part Two

Brooke Browne has a routine. Coffee at six fifteen. Building inspection at seven. Pretend she hasn't been dreaming about six men who live on the other side of her wall.

When the housing board wants exterior improvements before Homecoming, she has five weeks, a two-thousand-dollar budget, and a fraternity full of volunteers willing to do manual labor. She does not think about the fact that manual labor means shirtless. She does not think about Lukas Vogel's forearms when he sands her porch. She does not think about the way he brought her German beer on a Saturday evening and told her about his open relationship with the kind of honesty her ex-husband never managed.

She especially does not think about what happened on the east porch after everyone else went home.

The east porch is the blind side of the house. No windows. No foot traffic. Just a twenty-one-year-old German international student who fills every doorframe, a woman who hasn't been touched in five months, and a freshly sanded railing that was absolutely not designed for what they used it for.

Brooke has a building to renovate. A budget to protect. A clipboard to hide behind.

She is not going to let one afternoon on a porch turn into something she can't manage.

She is definitely not prepared for what happens at the tailgate.

Curb Appeal is Book 2 of The House Manager, an 8-book reverse harem (why choose) romance series. Contains a heroine who handles renovation budgets better than her own arousal, a German international student who laughs during spicy time and considers it a feature, and the kind of home improvement that no contractor was hired for.