The Widow in the Margins

Ottoline Graves has never had a job she couldn't leave. Then she takes the archivist position at Ashworth House, where the estate of a celebrated novelist is curated by a man who has spent six years refusing to let anyone in. Crispin Ashworth is fifty-five, exacting, and wrong about nearly everything except his late sister's books. He wants the archives sealed. Ottoline wants them opened. What she finds in a drafts folder would rewrite the whole family history. He wants it burned. She refuses. The unpublished novel leaks. He calls her a thief. She calls him a coward. Neither of them is wrong. An age-gap boss romance about the difference between preserving a legacy and telling the truth.