Gray Area

Two decades designing couture for the elite, and building a billion-dollar fashion brand, should feel like success. Instead, I have an empty mansion, a fresh divorce settlement, and the sinking feeling that I traded everything meaningful for a life that looks better on social media than it does in the mirror. When my practically estranged best friend passes away, she leaves me with the one thing my ex-husband never gave me a chance to have - a baby. Well, a soon-to-be baby, currently residing in a surrogate's belly. Surprise! Guilt-ridden, and scared to face this alone, cue my desperate funeral plus-one hire: Saylor, an escort with bedroom eyes and a smile that makes me forget I'm supposedly 'past my expiration date'. He's over a decade younger and shouldn't give me a second glance after the check clears. Only he does.