You Were My Daughter’s Friend

Aisha Bennett came to Hale House to restore a hotel—not fall for the one man she was never supposed to want.

At thirty, Aisha has fought too hard for her successful interior design career to let an intimidating client derail her biggest project yet. Graham Hale is wealthy, demanding, eighteen years older—and the father of her college best friend.

He remembers Aisha as the outspoken young woman who challenged him in his own home.

She remembers him as the handsome, controlled father she was smart enough never to touch.

Now they are living across the hall from each other while racing to renovate Graham’s historic coastal hotel before his daughter’s wedding. Long nights, heated arguments, and stolen moments make ignoring their attraction impossible.

Graham has spent years choosing duty over desire. But Aisha is no longer the young woman he once kept at a careful distance, and his self-control is beginning to crack.

When one forbidden kiss becomes something neither of them can walk away from, they must decide whether protecting the people they love is worth losing the future they never expected to find.

Because Aisha was once his daughter’s friend.

And that was the only thing keeping Graham honorable.

You Were My Daughter’s Friend

is a steamy BWWM romance featuring a competent Black heroine, a wealthy older man, forced proximity, best friend’s father, forbidden workplace tension, an eighteen-year age gap, and a hard-earned happily ever after.