The Mysterious One

The Weston Group Series, Book 3

A spicy grumpy-sunshine, age-gap, close-proximity romance from USA Today best-selling author Marni Mann...

I'm the mysterious one. The angriest alphahole who never bends. And she's the woman who will bring me to my knees.

As the executive chef and face of my family's billion-dollar empire, time is the one luxury I don't have. With endless responsibilities and nonstop demands, I lost my passion and love for the art of cooking. What used to be my dream job is now my worst nightmare. I was ready to walk away and give up everything we'd built..

Until Alivia happened.

She was supposed to be a temporary diversion so we could satisfy each other's desires and then never see each other again...

Yet I knew she was different right away. A woman who was my complete opposite, the calm to my storm. The sunshine to my darkness. With a body that left me speechless.

What I didn't see was how much we both craved a break.

Me from a career that would eventually kill me, her from an abusive home life.

When two people in pain connect, an explosion erupts. That was us. All fire and longing, mixed with a genuine need to seek shelter in one another's arms.

While I'm still savoring the taste of her on my lips, I see her again unexpectedly and wonder... is our connection enough to surpass the secrets between us, or were we only meant to have those two nights together?

©2025 Marni Mann (P)2025 Mann Publishing LLC

One of my favorites

Olivia was an amazing character and I feel I know an Olivia. We are nothing without the dreamers.

A great listen!

The queen of steam has delivered another five star read! I loved this one! It hooked me in right away and I didn’t want to put it down! So much so that I got the audio so I wouldn’t have to!

Let me tell you what the narrators truly upped the reading experience of this one! They brought so much life to the characters.

You will feel all the feels with this one! The author did a great job of taking a character that would be potentially difficult (in my eyes) to like and made you become attached to him. To all the characters really.

This is one of those reads that when it’s over you wished it wasn’t. I could have kept reading about walker and alivia for so much longer! I can’t wait to see what comes next!

So if you’re in the mood for a grumpy hero, workplace, billionaire, age gap, close proximity romance look no further!

Amazing

This was my first book by this author, and now I need to do a deep dive. This book was incredible. Just the perfect amount of angst, which is exactly what I needed. I also really identified with the characters which drew me in even more. You won’t regret listening to this book!

Walker is the best Weston brother!!!

I loved everything about this book! Narrators were amazing. Spice is 4/5. I loved how much Walker changed and developed into the man he was meant to be.

Incredible

Just wow. So beautiful, so authentic and relatable. We ALL need a little help sometimes. She needed Walker, yes, but he needed her just as much and that made the story relatable for me. Yes, the spice was there and scorching, but it was so much more than spice; their connection made the intimate moments organic and perfectly balanced within the story. Her resilience shone above his ability to help her make her dreams a reality, because they were her dreams that she fought her entire life to keep alive inside her, while surrounded in chaos and evilness, until setting off on the path that led to the HEA that she ultimately created. Her courage enveloped in strength was powerful beyond words. There is absolutely nothing here but a beautiful, powerful, emotional and riveting story. The most worthy credit I’ve spent. This story moved me like none other. I had never cried with a fiction novel, until this story. Every book in this series so far are exceptional, but this one was out of this world. I cannot wait for the next 2 books in this series, especially Eden’s; she sounds like a beautiful force of nature; deeply intriguing and perhaps even somewhat wounded.