First published 2022
Margot Noble runs Noble Family Winery in Napa Valley alongside her brother, and the pressure is constant. One night she meets Luke at a bar: charming, attractive, and refreshingly unknown to her in a valley where everyone knows everyone. They spend the night together, and Margot feels lucky. A perfect, clean, consequence-free encounter with someone she will never see again. Then Luke walks through the winery door the next morning as her newest hire. Margot draws a hard line. Whatever happened stays in the past. She is his boss, full stop. But every shift they work together makes that boundary harder to hold. Luke quit a high-paying Silicon Valley tech job after burning out completely, and he has told almost no one, least of all his mother, who has spent years bragging about his success. He does not know what comes next. What he does know is that he wants more time with Margot. She is smart, capable, and runs a business he is starting to respect. The problem is the power gap between them, and the question sitting underneath everything: would a woman who has built something real want a man still figuring out who he is? Jasmine Guillory sets this romance in the vineyards and tasting rooms of Napa, where attraction and ambition keep colliding.
Genres: fiction, romance, adult, contemporary-romance
Vibes: charming, emotional, intimate, romantic
Tropes: boss-employee-romance, power-imbalance, second-chance-romance
Setting: Napa Valley, Silicon Valley
400 pages · Paperback · Berkley