The Best Man's Worst Idea book cover by Jace Wilder

The Best Man’s Worst Idea

MM Contemporary Romance
by Jace Wilder

The Best Man's Worst Idea book cover by Jace Wilder

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Pairing: MM
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Inferno
Tropes: Age Gap, Forced Proximity, One Bed, Destination Wedding, Praise Kink, Caretaking, Competence Kink, Divorced Hero, Silver Fox, Grumpy-Sunshine

He’s the best man. He’s the bride’s brother. They have one bed, three days, and absolutely no time to fall in love.

Elliot Mercer can coordinate a twelve-course meal, a midnight fireworks display, and a bride’s panic attack without breaking a sweat. But when a catastrophic storm destroys the lakeside lodge hosting his younger sister’s wedding, he has three days to relocate 140 guests, replace every vendor, and keep his family from learning he’s one missed spreadsheet away from a nervous breakdown.

Then comes his worst complication: Grant Holloway.

The groom’s older brother. Best man. Recently divorced hotel developer. Silver at the temples, calm under pressure, and entirely too comfortable taking up space in Eli’s carefully managed life.

Grant owns a luxury property with one usable bedroom and thinks Eli needs sleep, food, and someone willing to tell him no.

Eli thinks Grant is smug, controlling, and dangerously easy to lean on.

Grant thinks Eli is brilliant, overworked, and one honest compliment away from coming apart in his hands.

Saving the wedding should be straightforward. Falling for the best man is the worst idea either of them has ever had.

You’ll love this book if you enjoy:

✅ Silver-fox hero who fixes everything except his own heart
✅ Wedding planner who’s never let anyone take care of him
✅ One bed, one cabin, three days of unbearable tension
✅ Praise kink that will WRECK you (🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ — graphic, explicit, emotional)
✅ Age gap (29/44) with equal agency
✅ Found family wedding chaos with the best supporting cast
✅ A grovel that earns every word
✅ HEA guaranteed


⚠️ Content Warning: This novel contains explicit sexual content (graphic MM scenes), strong language, emotional manipulation themes, anxiety and burnout depictions, and family pressure dynamics. Intended for readers 18+.


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Chapter One: The Flood

The thing about a perfect wedding venue is that it makes you stupid.

I knew better. I’d been doing this long enough to know that “charming lakeside lodge” was code for “structural liability with a cocktail license.”

But Cedarvale Lodge was so goddamn pretty that I forgot to be suspicious.

I pulled into the gravel lot at golden hour because I’m not above manipulating my own emotions. The main lodge sat at the top of a gentle slope, all dark timber and wide windows, the kind of building that looked like it had opinions about craft beer.

It was the kind of place that made people believe in love at first sight, which was convenient, because that was literally what I was selling.


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