by Helen Hardt
Part of Steel Brothers Saga by Helen Hardt, book 16
First published 2020
Ashley White arrives at Steel Vineyards ready to put her oenology studies into practice. The doctoral candidate knows wine theory inside and out, but she needs hands-on experience working alongside master winemaker Ryan Steel and his nephew Dale. Dale Steel prefers his vines to people. Surrounded by extended family, he still finds his truest comfort alone in the vineyard rows where quiet comes easier. He has made peace with his solitary nature and the shadows he carries within himself. Then Ashley shows up and disrupts everything he thought he understood about his carefully controlled world. Her energy stirs feelings Dale never expected to experience. The attraction between them grows impossible to ignore, even as Dale fights against it. He knows that opening himself to Ashley means risking the release of darker impulses he has worked to suppress. The more she draws him out, the more dangerous his hidden nature becomes.
Genres: fiction, romance, adult-fiction, contemporary-romance
Vibes: atmospheric, emotional, intimate
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family
Setting: Steel Vineyards
300 pages · Paperback · Waterhouse Press LLC