Angol
Bianca Calloway-Reyes has spent her whole life being useful. As her father's "fixer," she solves other people's problems before breakfast, smooths over every crisis at Calloway Hospitality, and has just agreed to marry a man she doesn't love to save the family fortune from collapse. She has never once been asked what she actually wants.
Then her father sends her to appraise a struggling Hudson Valley vineyard - collateral for the deal that's supposed to save everything - and she meets the one thing on the property nobody thought to put a price on: the guarded, infuriating, entirely too competent man who has spent a decade holding it together with nothing but an unwritten promise and his own two hands.
Nate Calder doesn't need saving, and he certainly doesn't need a woman with a clipboard and a corporate mandate deciding what his father's land is worth. But the fixer who shows up expecting a straightforward appraisal keeps staying for reasons that have nothing to do with spreadsheets - and the vineyard manager who swore off wanting things he couldn't keep starts, despite himself, wanting her.
As the wedding clock ticks down and her father's company closes in on the land Nate has spent everything protecting, Bianca has to decide whether she's willing to keep being everyone's convenient answer - or become, for the first time, brave enough to want something no one asked her to want.
The Vineyard She Wasn't Supposed to Want is Book Two of Fortunes Freely Given, a series about what it costs to be loved on purpose, and what it means, finally, to be loved freely.
