Contemporary romance — an older man, a younger woman, explicit · Marlcaster, Book 1
Terms of Her Own
He wrote the cheque that opened her restaurant. Now he can't decide whether wanting her makes him a man in love or a man who bought her.
Iris Averill is twenty-seven, a head chef with a signed fifteen-year lease and seventy-four thousand pounds she hasn't got. Her father says money you didn't earn is a hand round your throat. So she asks the other man who has been at every birthday of her life — Hal Brannock, fifty-one, her father's oldest friend — and he pays without conditions and without a repayment date, and tells himself that's the end of it.
It isn't. Across one long provincial spring — a delivery signed for, a rota argued over, a plate eaten standing at the pass at eleven at night — the thing between them stops being anything either of them can honestly call friendship. And when Iris says so out loud, Hal turns her down, because his money is standing in the room.
She goes to a bank to buy him out. The terms would cost her everything.
A slow-burn, explicit age-gap romance set in a small English county town. Forbidden, father's-best-friend, praise-heavy, and public by the end. Perfect for fans of Sara Cate and Mariana Zapata.
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ContemporarySmall TownFriends to Lovers
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