Tempting the Neighbor

Ashley Munoz writes contemporary romance with strong family threads, and Tempting the Neighbor uses the next-door setup to give two characters who are both at complicated points in their lives reasons to keep running into each other. The hero is a single dad still figuring out how to be one. The heroine is rebuilding from her own version of starting over.

Munoz’s strength is the slow honest conversation. The romance grows through actual interactions, not through misunderstandings or third-act drama.

The child gets real space rather than functioning as a prop. The hero’s parenting feels lived rather than performed.

For readers who follow Lucy Score’s Knockemout series or Kandi Steiner’s books, Munoz fits the same general shelf. The heat level is moderate. The emotional work is patient. Stands alone but Munoz’s catalog rewards reading through.