Best Friend’s Dad Bod book cover by Jace Wilder

Best Friend’s Dad Bod

Steamy MM Age-Gap Romance
by Jace Wilder

Best Friend’s Dad Bod book cover by Jace Wilder

Available at all major retailers

Pairing: MM

Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Inferno

Tropes: Best Friend’s Dad, Age Gap, Dad Bod, Body Worship, Forced Proximity, Praise Kink, Daddy Kink, Touch Starved, Secret Relationship

My best friend’s dad has no idea how good he looks. I intend to fix that.

My best friend offered me his father’s guesthouse for the summer. He forgot to mention the outdoor shower. Or the pool. Or the fact that his newly divorced dad has become the most distracting man I’ve ever seen.

Leander Vale is forty-eight, silver-bearded, broad, soft in all the right places, and convinced nobody could genuinely want the body his marriage taught him to hide. I intend to prove him wrong.

He says I’m too young. I say I’m twenty-nine and perfectly capable of knowing what I like. He says I’m his son’s best friend. I say that explains why we need rules, not why we should pretend the attraction is imaginary.

One kiss becomes a private summer arrangement. No promises. No public affection. No telling my best friend. Everything ends when I move out.

But I don’t want Leander temporarily. I want his quiet mornings, his strong hands, his terrible reading glasses, his soft stomach beneath my palm, and every year he thinks makes him less desirable.

When my best friend returns early, Leander tries to sacrifice us before anyone can ask him to. He still believes loving someone means deciding what’s best for them. I’m about to teach him the difference between being needed and being chosen.

You’ll love this book if you enjoy:

✅ Best friend’s silver fox dad with a body worth worshipping
✅ Confident tattoo artist who knows exactly what he wants
✅ “He calls it a dad bod. I call it exactly what I want”
✅ Praise kink, body worship, and consensual daddy dynamic
✅ Secret summer affair that becomes something permanent
✅ 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Inferno heat — graphic, explicit, emotional
✅ HEA guaranteed

⚠️ Content Warning: This novel contains explicit sexual content (graphic MM scenes including body worship, praise kink, and consensual daddy dynamic), strong language, themes of body image and self-worth, divorce recovery, and family conflict. Intended for readers 18+.


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Chapter One: The Guesthouse

I knew the guesthouse was a bad idea the second I said yes.

Not bad in the way people mean when they say bad idea with a little shiver of excitement, the way you describe a third drink or a spontaneous tattoo or a midnight swim you’ll laugh about later. I mean bad in the way a structural engineer means when she says the foundation has shifted and every load-bearing wall in the house is now a suggestion.

I said yes anyway, because Calder offered it like he was doing me a favor, and because the apartment above Nightjar Ink had actual water running down the interior walls, and because the alternative was sleeping on my sister’s pullout couch while Zeph’s three rescue cats took turns shedding on my equipment.

And because Leander Vale lived forty feet from the guesthouse door, and I had been lying to myself about him for long enough that the lie had started to feel heavier than the truth.


Calder met me in the driveway on a Tuesday afternoon in early June.

Chapter 1 continues on the full page. The complete first chapter is available on the book page.


🔥 Want an EXCLUSIVE Bonus Chapter?

Permanent Ink — The Tattoo Aftercare — A scene TOO HOT for retailers

Leander’s tattoo has healed. Auden inspects his work — thoroughly. Mirror sex, daddy dynamic at full power, and the body worship scene that proves permanent ink was never just about the tattoo.


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