Her Reluctant Shepherd

Wren Calloway clears landmines for a living. She has three vans, one functioning detector, and a fundraiser in a hotel ballroom she cannot bring herself to charm. When a reclusive donor offers to fund her charity for five years, she flies out to sign the paperwork and finds the landowner's advisor is a man she has read about in an official report she was never supposed to see. Elias Vaughn resigned his commission rather than let a dead sergeant take the blame. Now he works for the kind of money he used to hate. Six weeks, one orchard, and a militia checkpoint later, Wren knows two things: the man is not what the report said, and she cannot take his money if she cannot take him. A slow-burn billionaire military romance about two people who disagree about everything except the ground underneath them.