Gray Hair Don't Care

A really great romance, second-chance friends to lovers, which isn't always my fave trope, but Donovan and Lela were great characters, and since they were older leads, the rest of the cast (ex-wife, grown kid, elderly parents, friends-that-are-like-family) made for a different type of story, and it was really nice to read. I know I bitch all the time about the MCs in romance novels not communicating well, but in this one, Donovan is aware that this is a problem for him, and while he still wasn't the best at it, there WAS growth, so it didn't bother me. Also, it was really cool to read a romance where the leads are allowed to be super ambitious and into their careers, and not just in like, a “oh no this cupcake business I inherited but never wanted to run is going to fail because I'm so distracted by the hunk in the business next door” way. Like, Lela owns her own cosmetics empire that she's working super hard to grow and expand and clearly works a ton and loves what she does, and that's really neat. I enjoyed this a lot.