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Stork Club #1
Learning to Stay
A billionaire CEO drowning in triplets. A crisis caretaker who never stays past the job. And an arrangement neither of them planned to survive.
Corey Winters has spent his career putting other people's families back together—then walking away before anyone gets too attached. Structured. Professional. Temporary. When his agency sends him to a San Francisco penthouse where infant triplets are in chaos and their grief-wrecked uncle is asleep on the floor, Corey does what he always does: he takes control, makes a plan, and starts counting down to his exit.
Hendrik Welsin, the kind of man who color-codes his spreadsheets and runs a three-hundred-million-dollar company on pattern recognition, can't make sense of any of this. His sister is gone. He has three daughters he loves desperately and has no idea how to keep alive. And somehow the most infuriating, competent, impossible person he's ever met is the one standing between his girls and disaster.
Now they're living it—formula runs at 2 a.m., synchronized feedings, pediatrician spreadsheets, and the kind of trust that builds when someone sees you at your absolute worst and stays anyway. Corey has survived thirty-two years by keeping himself portable, temporary, easy to leave. Hendrik doesn't push. He doesn't ask for more. He just shows up—every time.
And Corey is terrified of what it means that he's stopped counting down.
✓ Caretaker-to-family
✓ He falls first
✓ Slow burn
✓ Found family
✓ Single dad (surprise guardian)
✓ Forced proximity
✓ Grumpy/sunshine
Heat Level: Closed Door
Vibes: Tender, heartfelt, quietly devastating
Setting: San Francisco penthouse
Ending: HEA
Series, Book 1 (standalone)
Some addresses you don't mean to make home. Some people won't let you leave.
Corey Winters has spent his career putting other people's families back together—then walking away before anyone gets too attached. Structured. Professional. Temporary. When his agency sends him to a San Francisco penthouse where infant triplets are in chaos and their grief-wrecked uncle is asleep on the floor, Corey does what he always does: he takes control, makes a plan, and starts counting down to his exit.
Hendrik Welsin, the kind of man who color-codes his spreadsheets and runs a three-hundred-million-dollar company on pattern recognition, can't make sense of any of this. His sister is gone. He has three daughters he loves desperately and has no idea how to keep alive. And somehow the most infuriating, competent, impossible person he's ever met is the one standing between his girls and disaster.
Now they're living it—formula runs at 2 a.m., synchronized feedings, pediatrician spreadsheets, and the kind of trust that builds when someone sees you at your absolute worst and stays anyway. Corey has survived thirty-two years by keeping himself portable, temporary, easy to leave. Hendrik doesn't push. He doesn't ask for more. He just shows up—every time.
And Corey is terrified of what it means that he's stopped counting down.
✓ Caretaker-to-family
✓ He falls first
✓ Slow burn
✓ Found family
✓ Single dad (surprise guardian)
✓ Forced proximity
✓ Grumpy/sunshine
Heat Level: Closed Door
Vibes: Tender, heartfelt, quietly devastating
Setting: San Francisco penthouse
Ending: HEA
Series, Book 1 (standalone)
Some addresses you don't mean to make home. Some people won't let you leave.
123 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 17, 2026
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April 16, 2026
AI or just terrible with timelines
AI cover but I'm supposed to believe it's not AI writing? Even with all the random errors - was Corey 8 or 10 when he went into foster care? Was he with his company 8, 10, or 15 years? If the girls were 6 months old when Corey started then how are they 18 months old six months later?
AI cover but I'm supposed to believe it's not AI writing? Even with all the random errors - was Corey 8 or 10 when he went into foster care? Was he with his company 8, 10, or 15 years? If the girls were 6 months old when Corey started then how are they 18 months old six months later?
June 1, 2026
It was okay...nothing stood out to me. The story lagged after they got together.
January 27, 2026
Corey (32) et Hendrick avec un Culomètre à 👨❤️💋👨🍆
- Scénario basique : un PDG milliardaire n'arrivant plus à gérer ses trois nièces en bas âge, après avoir récupéré leur garde à la mort de sa sœur, embauche une aide à domicile spécialisée dans l'aide éclair des parents en détresse.
- Tout est fait pour que Corey développe plus d'attachement pour cette famille qui le touche en plein cœur, alors qu'il fait ce travail depuis des années et n'a jamais flanché.
- Ça se lit beaucoup trop bien, d'ailleurs pas de problème de traduction (je crois qu'il y a une vraie personne à la traduction).
- J'avoue avoir buggé quand les deux ont voulu tout arrêter au niveau du boulot pour être ensemble, c'est un peu trop, sachant que des compromis existent et qu'ils ne sont pas les premiers parents à être dans cette situation. Mais il fallait créer du drame.
- Ils résolvent évidemment le problème et tout est beau dans le meilleur des mondes.
=> Auteurice validée malgré un plot un peu invraisemblable.
- Scénario basique : un PDG milliardaire n'arrivant plus à gérer ses trois nièces en bas âge, après avoir récupéré leur garde à la mort de sa sœur, embauche une aide à domicile spécialisée dans l'aide éclair des parents en détresse.
- Tout est fait pour que Corey développe plus d'attachement pour cette famille qui le touche en plein cœur, alors qu'il fait ce travail depuis des années et n'a jamais flanché.
- Ça se lit beaucoup trop bien, d'ailleurs pas de problème de traduction (je crois qu'il y a une vraie personne à la traduction).
- J'avoue avoir buggé quand les deux ont voulu tout arrêter au niveau du boulot pour être ensemble, c'est un peu trop, sachant que des compromis existent et qu'ils ne sont pas les premiers parents à être dans cette situation. Mais il fallait créer du drame.
- Ils résolvent évidemment le problème et tout est beau dans le meilleur des mondes.
=> Auteurice validée malgré un plot un peu invraisemblable.
June 21, 2026
Stork Club’s Best Manny
Author Lindie Keene has written the sweetest Manny story ever. Corey is Stork Club’s best Operative. He grew up feeling unwanted, being passed from one foster family to another, never being allowed to stay anywhere for long, for someone to want to keep him, love him. So, wanting to feel needed and to help parents raise and love their children he became a Manny.
When he arrives at the penthouse of a billionaire CEO, whose lying fast asleep on his kitchen floor exhausted, and three babies squawking unharmoniously to be fed and changed, judging from the smell emanating from the premises from the hallway, he jumps straight into action to sort it all out.
When Hendrick Welsin wakes up he doesn’t recognise where he is, or how quiet his home has become. Then he wants to know who the strange man is standing in his kitchen washing baby bottles at the sink.
He hadn’t been aware that his wonderful sister now unfortunately deceased, and the mother of the 4 month old triplets, Daisy, Lily and Rose, had made him their Guardian had already arranged for the Stork Club to send him help to teach him all the basic skills of raising babies.
Neither Hendrick nor Corey could ever have imagined how a Mother’s Will would impact their lives. Corey could never have dreamed how three baby girls would creep into his heart and make him theirs.
This is a real heart warmer that delivers all the warm feels and some steamy moments, (when those babies finally envelop a sleep pattern) when Corey has to learn that someone in the world wants to keep him and make his stay. Hendrick is also discovering talents he never knew he had, and learning ghee’s more to life than Quarterly Reports and Board Meetings.
A very enjoyable easy read at123 pages that will leave you with a smile on your face and a HEA.
Author Lindie Keene has written the sweetest Manny story ever. Corey is Stork Club’s best Operative. He grew up feeling unwanted, being passed from one foster family to another, never being allowed to stay anywhere for long, for someone to want to keep him, love him. So, wanting to feel needed and to help parents raise and love their children he became a Manny.
When he arrives at the penthouse of a billionaire CEO, whose lying fast asleep on his kitchen floor exhausted, and three babies squawking unharmoniously to be fed and changed, judging from the smell emanating from the premises from the hallway, he jumps straight into action to sort it all out.
When Hendrick Welsin wakes up he doesn’t recognise where he is, or how quiet his home has become. Then he wants to know who the strange man is standing in his kitchen washing baby bottles at the sink.
He hadn’t been aware that his wonderful sister now unfortunately deceased, and the mother of the 4 month old triplets, Daisy, Lily and Rose, had made him their Guardian had already arranged for the Stork Club to send him help to teach him all the basic skills of raising babies.
Neither Hendrick nor Corey could ever have imagined how a Mother’s Will would impact their lives. Corey could never have dreamed how three baby girls would creep into his heart and make him theirs.
This is a real heart warmer that delivers all the warm feels and some steamy moments, (when those babies finally envelop a sleep pattern) when Corey has to learn that someone in the world wants to keep him and make his stay. Hendrick is also discovering talents he never knew he had, and learning ghee’s more to life than Quarterly Reports and Board Meetings.
A very enjoyable easy read at123 pages that will leave you with a smile on your face and a HEA.
June 26, 2026
Beautiful story!
This is a story about hope. Hope for a man who is guardian to his deceased sister's triplets, and hope for a man who thinks he isn't loned or wanted. Hendrick is guardian to his sister's triplets and has no idea as to what he is doing or what he's supposed to do. Riley is the nanny that Hendrik's sister specifically asked for in her will to take care of her brother and her three daughters. He doesn't know that. The other thing is that he becomes more involved with the family than he ever thought he would.
This is a story about hope. Hope for a man who is guardian to his deceased sister's triplets, and hope for a man who thinks he isn't loned or wanted. Hendrick is guardian to his sister's triplets and has no idea as to what he is doing or what he's supposed to do. Riley is the nanny that Hendrik's sister specifically asked for in her will to take care of her brother and her three daughters. He doesn't know that. The other thing is that he becomes more involved with the family than he ever thought he would.
May 17, 2026
A story that starts with pain and loss as a brother comes to terms with his sisters passing and her babies now in his care. Expert help comes and that is where a sweet but sometimes angsty story blossoms, giving us a touching tale.
January 22, 2026
On the Favorites shelf.
The emotional trauma these two characters were mired in was heartbreaking. The bachelor uncle and the hired help put all of that aside to care for motherless triplets and then each other.
Very well written, entertaining and satisfying. I especially appreciate the author giving me the "how they turned out" rather than the dreaded epilogue that tells to you where they end up but not how they got there.
The emotional trauma these two characters were mired in was heartbreaking. The bachelor uncle and the hired help put all of that aside to care for motherless triplets and then each other.
Very well written, entertaining and satisfying. I especially appreciate the author giving me the "how they turned out" rather than the dreaded epilogue that tells to you where they end up but not how they got there.
March 28, 2026
Amazing Story
This book is right up my alley, my favorite genre Dads and their kids, Corey is employed to help struggling people coping with their kids due to different reasons, and it's Hendrick that needs help this time raising triplets after a family tragedy. I really enjoyed this book and highly recommend reading it.
This book is right up my alley, my favorite genre Dads and their kids, Corey is employed to help struggling people coping with their kids due to different reasons, and it's Hendrick that needs help this time raising triplets after a family tragedy. I really enjoyed this book and highly recommend reading it.
May 8, 2026
Sweet
Staying is harder than wrangling triplets. This is a sweet story of helping a new father of triplet girls but finding his own happiness in the process. There are several instances of math not adding up correctly and at least one continuity issue. But overall a sweet story.
Staying is harder than wrangling triplets. This is a sweet story of helping a new father of triplet girls but finding his own happiness in the process. There are several instances of math not adding up correctly and at least one continuity issue. But overall a sweet story.
May 28, 2026
A light-hearted story in brief. Despite time jump inconsistencies (babies age like in a soap opera - 4 to 18 months in the span of 6 months) the essential story is sweet and loving. I'd love to see this novella, expanded and developed into a full length novel - that said it was a sweet treat.
March 22, 2026
I am so confused how old those kids are. One moment they are infants, the next they are getting solids and are crawling... something does not make sense.
June 8, 2026
Ok, but long winded
This story was good overall, bit it was a bit long winded at times. I felt like the pacing was just a bit slow and off for some of the story
This story was good overall, bit it was a bit long winded at times. I felt like the pacing was just a bit slow and off for some of the story
June 30, 2026
A sweet short story of 3 babies and the two men that loved them. Recommend reading.
July 5, 2026
I got this book as a freebie when I was in the middle of being sick and wasn't paying close attention. Are all of this authors books using AI covers??? This was a massive disappointment...
June 17, 2026
Short and sweet, but are we sure a human wrote this.
February 9, 2026
Fabulosa
Una historia hermosa y conmovedora, donde tienen que aprender a soltar el pasado y seguir adelante, me gustó bastante, con estas trillisas tan encantadoras, gracias.
Una historia hermosa y conmovedora, donde tienen que aprender a soltar el pasado y seguir adelante, me gustó bastante, con estas trillisas tan encantadoras, gracias.
February 27, 2026
estuvo meh, solo lo leí xq ahorita ando en mood de leer cosas con hijos
March 12, 2026
Buena y dulce historia con un protagonistas diferentes y hombres que luchan contra su propio pasado sus inseguridades y unos bebes muy peculiares.
June 14, 2026
Todo es tan rapido que fue demasiado hasta para mi, me sorprendió llegar hasta el final
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