Doctor Grump: A Grumpy-Sunshine Billionaire Surgeon Romance

"If you can't handle basic instrument protocol, perhaps trauma isn't for you."

That is the first thing Dr. Grayson Ward ever said to me.

They call him the Ice King. Billionaire. Brilliant. The best trauma surgeon at St. Katherine's and the coldest man who has ever walked its halls. Three weeks on his team and I am still holding a scalpel with shaking hands, still proving I deserve to be in his OR.

He thinks I am careless. He is wrong.

Six months ago I froze. My father coded on my table and I stood there and did nothing, and now I see his face on every patient we lose. Nobody knows. Not the board, not my fellow residents, and definitely not the man who has made it his personal mission to find my breaking point.

But the Ice King has cracks of his own. I saw one the night of the storm. I saw another when my grandmother left flan in his car and he texted me at midnight to ask if she got home safely.

Then his ex walks back into his office with a lawyer, a leaked story, and a plan to burn down everything he has built. And I realise the man everyone calls unfeeling is the only person who has ever really looked at me. 💔

He barks to keep people out.

I smiled my way in.

🔥 TROPES YOU WILL FIND INSIDE

💥 Grumpy sunshine

💥 Billionaire surgeon hero

💥 Boss and employee

💥 Workplace and hospital romance

💥 Slow burn to explosive

💥 Ice king who thaws for exactly one woman

💥 He falls first and he falls so much harder

💥 Touch her and die protectiveness

💥 Wounded heroine with a buried secret

💥 Big meddling family who adopt the grump

💥 Vindictive ex plotline

💥 Competence kink

💥 Forced proximity

💥 Only one bed

💥 Alternating first person POV

💋 Heat: open door, explicit, no fade to black

💍 Guaranteed HEA. No cheating. No cliffhanger. Full length standalone.

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