Coffee and Contracts

Junie Baker roasts the best coffee in Portland and owes nothing to anyone — until the rent triples and her twin brother lands in a cardiac unit on the same Tuesday. The only person who offers to help is Ivan Halden, forty-four, silver-haired, sharper than a tax code, and the kind of man who buys a failing business to fix it or bury it. He'll consult for free. He'll keep his hands off the roastery. He'll keep his hands off Junie. He says all three out loud. He means two of them. When Junie finds out he's been buying her neighbors' leases behind her back, saving her block without telling her, she has to decide whether a man who fixes everything can be trusted with the one thing she never wanted fixed. A steamy age gap boss romance about coffee, contracts, and the second Tuesday that changes everything.