Sign Here, Mr. Vale

Poppy Adeyemi has survived worse than Elias Vale. She's just not sure when. Elias runs his family's vineyard like a man who's been burned by everyone who ever loved him. He doesn't want a new events coordinator. He definitely doesn't want to be engaged to her by Friday. But the board has a clause: married by forty, or the vineyard goes to his cousin. And Poppy accidentally told the biggest buyer in the state that she's the fiancée. So they make a deal. Eight weeks. One harvest. No feelings. Poppy keeps the schedule running through a storm that takes out half the trellis. Elias keeps her contract in his desk drawer. Neither of them mentions the barrel room, or the name still chalked on the wall, or the kiss that wasn't for anyone. When the paperwork comes due, Elias has to choose: the vineyard he's spent his life protecting, or the woman who fixed it.