His Daughter’s Best Friend
by itsvlada
💼 Steamy boss-assistant dynamics for fans of office romance books.
- Genre
- New Adult
- Chapters
- 51
- Status
- Completed
- Reads
- 4.9K
18+Review by Julia ·
Ava has spent five years hiding her attraction to Tobias, the father of her best friend, her boyfriend’s dad. He is a political figure that she looks up to. She is now 21 and working as an intern under his supervision; she believes she can keep things professional. But one night, everything collapses. She discovers her boyfriend’s betrayal and confesses her attractions and feelings. This leads to a moment that changes their lives forever.
Tobias is in the middle of a gubernatorial campaign where he is surrounded by enemies, including his ex-wife, Ava’s ex-boyfriend, and the risk of a scandal being leaked. When Ava finds herself with a life-altering secret, the stakes could not be any bigger. Now there is a battle between love and reputation, desire and duty. They must both decide if the fallout will be worth it.
Themes Discussed in His Daughter’s Best Friend
🏛️ Power & politics
❤️ Sacrifice vs love
🙅🏻♀️ Forbidden love
🤫 Consequences and secrets
Reasons to Read His Daughter’s Best Friend
😱 Scandal-driven plot
🔥 An addictive and fast-paced storytelling
👩❤️👨 Emotionally complex characters
Meet The Main Characters
👩 Ava
Emotionally conflicted, intelligent, and ambitious. She is torn between her career and the love she understands will cost her everything she has worked for. She must decide if she will take her own path, even if it will come at a high price.
👨🏻 Tobias
A devoted father and politician who shows he is in control, but in fact, he is divided internally. He is fully aware of the risks that come with giving in to his desires, but is finding it extremely difficult to resist. He must balance ambition with morality and desire.
❓What are the consequences of falling in love with a man you can’t have?
His Daughter’s Best Friend synopsis
Ava has spent five years hiding her most shameful secret: she's hopelessly attracted to her best friend's father, her boyfriend's dad, and the man whose political career inspired her own ambitions. Now twenty-one and interning under his supervision, she's convinced that burying her feelings is the only path forward. But everything unravels the night of her birthday, when she discovers her boyfriend's betrayal—and confesses years of forbidden desire to the one man who should never know.
One reckless night and sincere confession changes everything.
Now Tobias is launching his gubernatorial campaign with his manipulative ex-wife circling like a shark, her vengeful ex refuses to let go, and Ava is carrying a secret that could destroy them all.
He's twenty-three years older. He's her mentor. He's her best friend's father. And he's the only man who's ever made her feel truly wanted.
As scandal threatens and enemies close in, Ava faces an impossible choice: protect the man she loves by walking away, or fight for a future the world would condemn her for wanting.
Some loves are forbidden for a reason. Others are worth the fall.
Read His Daughter’s Best Friend – Chapter 1
[POV Ava]
I'm fucked.
And not in a fun way—though God knows it's been months since that happened.
No, I'm fucked in the ‘sitting across from my best friend's dad pretending I'm not mentally undressing him’ way. Which is approximately seven thousand times worse.
The cursor on my laptop screen blinks at me like an accusation as I pretend to review the final paragraph of my youth program proposal. Across the conference table, Tobias adjusts his reading glasses and marks something on a budget report.
I almost hate myself for noticing the exact way afternoon light catches the silver threading through his dark hair at the temples.
"The grant committee's going to love this."
He taps my proposal with his expensive pen, and I track the movement like a cat watching a laser pointer. His sleeves are rolled up, exposing forearms that have absolutely no business looking that good on a forty-four-year-old city councilman.
"Especially this section on youth mentorship."
"Thanks, Mr. Murphy." I force my eyes back to my laptop screen where the cursor blinks at me judgmentally.
My voice comes out steady, professional. I've gotten good at that.
"Tobias," he corrects automatically, then grins and glances up. "Come on, Ava. You're twenty-one now. You can't keep calling me Mr. Murphy like you're still that nervous seventeen-year-old who used to blush every time I asked about your classes."
I still blush, you unfairly beautiful silver fox. I've just gotten better at hiding it.
"Old habits," I manage, proud when my voice doesn't crack.
"Speaking of twenty-one..." He sets down his pen, giving me his full attention. "Chloe's driving me insane with party prep. Apparently my music taste has been deemed 'aggressively millennial' and I'm banned from the playlist."
Tropes
- Pregnancy
- Betrayal
- Age Gap
- Boss & Assistant
- Alpha Male
- Forced Proximity
- Virgin girl
- Secret Baby
- Office romance