The Widow of Halloran House

Halloran House is falling down. Corin Halloran is the only one who won't admit it. Maren Okonkwo is hired to catalog his mother's library — and ends up cataloging her new boss instead. He's forty-six, cold, brilliant, and grieving a mother whose death is the only thing he won't discuss. She's twenty-eight, patient, and not interested in being anyone's assistant. But the company is collapsing, the board is circling, and Maren is the only person Corin lets close enough to see the truth. When a rival offers her a fortune for the estate's secrets, she refuses — and discovers that the key to saving Halloran House has been in the library the whole time. A slow-burn age gap boss romance with a modern gothic edge, a heroine who will not be kept, and a hero who has to leave his own house to earn her.