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Strictly New Orleans: A Second Chance Age Gap Interracial Romance
Paperback
Series: The Strictly Romantic Suspense Novels
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 16 2026
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
He came to save a business. She's fighting to save a legacy. Neither of them planned on this.
Philip is forty-one, a disciplined consultant, and a devoted single father who keeps his world tightly controlled. Then a deathbed promise pulls him to New Orleans to rescue a failing family business he has no stake in - except his word.
The plan is clean: fix the books, honor the promise, go home.
Melissa is twenty-five, grieving, and holding together the remnants of her father's coffee empire with sheer will. The chain of shops her family built is crumbling. The legacy that once defined her city block now threatens to bury her. The last thing she needs is a silver-fox outsider sweeping in to tell her how to save what's hers.
Even if he's the only one who truly listens. Even if he sees her - not just the heiress, but the woman underneath the grief. Even if every time he's near, she forgets how to breathe.
The sixteen-year age gap is impossible to ignore. He's a white man walking into a world that isn't his - her family, her neighborhood, her New Orleans. The chemistry? Undeniable. Consuming. Dangerous.
When Philip's children arrive for the summer, what started as a business arrangement becomes something neither of them can walk away from. Lines blur. Walls fall. And as a hurricane bears down on the city, they'll have to decide: is what they're building strong enough to survive the storm?
A sweeping, emotionally intense romance for readers who love Kennedy Ryan, Talia Hibbert, and Jasmine Guillory.
Tropes
Age Gap (16 years) - Single Dad - Grief & Healing - Interracial Romance - Hurricane Backdrop - Family Legacy - Guaranteed HEA
Book 6 in the Strictly Series. Complete standalone. No cliffhanger. Guaranteed happily ever after.
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