I walk dogs to pay the bills. I didn't expect to put a leash on a grumpy, closeted billionaire.
TOBY I’m barely keeping my head above water. Between working as a dog walker for the city’s elite and being a full-time caretaker for my recovering ex, I don't have time to breathe, let alone date. But my early morning walks have become my secret sanctuary. That’s where I meet Declan. He’s older, intimidatingly handsome, and completely out of his depth with his giant rescue mastiff. What starts as a business transaction—five hundred dollars a week to train his dog in the park—quickly turns into heavy breathing and tangled limbs hidden deep in the wooded trails. Showing the older, powerful silver fox the ropes is the most intoxicating thing I've ever experienced. But he's terrified of anyone seeing us. And I refuse to be a secret.
DECLAN As the CEO of a luxury aviation empire, my life looks perfect on paper. In reality, I’m suffocating. I’m trapped in a cold, loveless corporate marriage, and my only escape is the park. I'm fifty years old, exhausted, and completely numb... until a tiny, fluffy terror of a Pomeranian attacks my dog, and I collide with Toby. Toby is young, fiery, wearing workout shorts that should be illegal, and he sparks a primal hunger in me I didn't know I was capable of feeling. I’ve never been with a man before. But now, I can't stop craving him.
THE SCANDAL It was supposed to be our dirty little secret in the morning mist. But when a local tabloid sets up hidden trail cameras in our section of the woods, our private escape is splashed across the front page. Suddenly, my corporate empire and Toby's fragile life are going up in flames. I have a choice to stay with my cold wife and keep my billions, or burn my empire to the ground to start over with the boy who brought me back to life.
First Class Paws is a steamy, high-angst M/M romance featuring a late-in-life gay awakening, an age gap, sneaking around in the woods, a grumpy billionaire who gives it all up for love, a sunshine dog walker who finally gets taken care of, and a guaranteed Happily Ever After. (Plus a cameo from Book 1's bossiest Pomeranian!)