Manhattan millionaire Charles Fraser knew everything about closing a deal; he knew nothing about being a father figure to a five-year-old boy in suburbia.

It was supposed to be simple: answer the ad for a male influence, stay two weeks and walk away—no questions asked, no one the wiser. But one look at the dimpled boy and his bonafide angel of a mother and all that changed. Rose wowed him with a fresh lemonade and porch swings, and after one day Charles dreamed of Little League with Lucas and long summer nights with Rose.

He still knew nothing about being a father—though suddenly he was willing to learn. But what would happen when Rose found out who he was…and why he was really there?