Nazaire “Naz” Beaumont doesn’t do distractions.
Running Chic & Shear Lounge, the hottest barbershop in Dallas, takes hustle, precision, and zero room for mistakes. He’s already got enough pressure from his Creole-Puerto Rican parents measuring him against his NFL-star brother and his barely-holding-it-together other one. So when a ceiling collapse threatens to shut down the whole shop, Naz calls in help. He doesn’t expect the contractor to look like temptation in steel-toe boots.
Tyler Maureau’s life blueprint got redrawn the second he came out.
After walking away from his marriage, he’s focused on flipping houses and keeping his head down. But his newest job throws him into the orbit of Naz—sharp-tongued, fine as hell, and closed off tighter than a vault. Tyler’s not here to fall… until he does, hard.
What starts as heat turns into something deeper.
But Tyler’s jealous ex is back in town, and she’s not leaving without a fight. Add in family drama, gossip, and old wounds that don’t heal easily, and it’s only a matter of time before someone breaks.
Love might be the hardest thing either man’s ever had to build—
and the only thing worth risking everything for.
