House of Cards: An MM Unexpected Single Father Romance (Not in the Cards, Book 1)

Omg House of Cards by Courtney W. Dixon is one of my fav books 2026! Calvin aka Cal & Seth are one of my fav books couples ever! 🥰😍🥹 This book made me swoon, laugh & cry! 🥰😂😭 This book is a great start to a new series. 🥰😍 I love this single dad romance & frenemies to friends to lovers and opposites romance.🥰 Yes these two neighbors were destined to be together it just took them a while to to get there. Tragedy, 😭 brings them closer when single bachelor Cal gets custody of his best friend's son Braeden. Cal need help from his cute single dad of 3 children Seth. Cal & Seth are so prefect together.🥰 I love that Seth helped Cal with new his role as Braden's guardian. The kids were awesome Braedan, Emily aka Hellcat, Harrison, and Sawyer were all awesome. Gizmo is such a cute cat too. I love the growth of Cal & Seth in this book. 🥰🩵💜 The found family scenes and the bonding scenes between Seth & Cal and also woth their kids was beautiful. Cal & Seth are good dads and made sure to be there for there kids no matter what. Through the ups and down. 🥹🥰 I loved all the guys in the Dad's poker club too. ♣️ The guys are great group and so supportive of Cal & Seth getting together. Cal being protective of Seth was so good and hot too! 🥰 Omg Cal & Seth dancing together, their first kiss and they spicy scenes and the pet names Tiger & Joker were so damn! The spicy were good. I felt the heat between these two! 🥵🫠😍😏 Wow a cliffhanger sucker punch ending to start…

What a delightfully surprising and touching book House of Cards is! Once again, Courtney W. Dixon has challenged my assumptions and created an emotional and marvelous story, full of robust characters that feel real and stick with you long after you’ve closed the book. Neighbors Calvin and Seth could not be more different. Seth’s a single father of three, running on caffeine and barely controlled chaos, trying to heal from his partner abandoning him. Calvin’s a confirmed bachelor, nearing 40, and recovering from his own toxic relationships - both romantic and familial. Both men are successful business owners, though their worlds seem to be chasms apart. Calvin’s world is turned upside down with the arrival of a teenage boy - the son of his friends lost to a tragic accident - and the only person he can turn to is Seth. Through exhausted confessions, childcare support, casseroles shuttled across front yards, and a poker group of sassy and supportive single dads, Calvin and Seth learn how to lean on another person again, how to create a family, and how to love and be loved. Oh, what a lovely book! Both Seth and Calvin have been through truly wretched romantic relationships, and are clearly doing the best that they can. As a parent, the feelings of being overwhelmed, constantly unprepared, and running on empty can feel so under represented in literature, and Courtney captured all of it perfectly. Parenthood is so often both the best and worst days at the same time and Seth’s…