Elena Rostova’s life is a masterclass in control. As a powerful CEO and the chair of the Montecito Arts Foundation, she has spent the last seven years hiding her past trauma behind tailored suits and an impenetrable "Ice Queen" facade. But with her foundation's crucial tenth-anniversary Gala only weeks away, her meticulously planned world hits a snag: her twelve-acre estate garden is dying, and her landscapers keep quitting.

Enter Maya Brooks. Maya is a talented, dirt-stained, and completely unimpressed estate restoration specialist who knows exactly how to coax life out of barren soil. She is also everything Elena avoids: perceptive, patient, and dangerously alluring. As Maya transforms the suffocatingly sterile grounds into a lush, breathing paradise, she begins dismantling Elena’s carefully constructed defenses right along with them.

Soon, their charged banter turns into blistering, undeniable heat. But as the Gala approaches and old ghosts—and current enemies—threaten to tear down everything Elena has built, she must decide if she's finally ready to let go of her control, or if she'll let the best thing that's ever happened to her slip away.

Content Warning: This book contains explicit sexual content and is intended for mature readers only

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