Bidding on the Boss

Elodie Marsh is twenty-six, three months behind on rent, and holding the gavel at a charity auction she helped organise to save the vineyards she loves. She is not supposed to bid. She is definitely not supposed to win her own boss. Theo Karalis is forty-one, freshly widowed his father's estate, and desperate enough to put himself on the block. When Elodie accidentally takes the lot, Theo insists on honouring the date — and one day in Napa turns into six weeks of secrets. But the harvest is failing, the estate manager is lying, and Theo's ex-wife wants the property for herself. Elodie has one chance to prove what she's worth — and it has nothing to do with the bid. An age gap boss romance set in wine country, with a slow burn and a heroine who refuses to be surplus.