Sebastian Whitmore inherited his father's estate without the respect that once followed the Whitmore name.
Gemma Engel, trying to rebuild the career a man's lie destroyed, arrives with a contract Bas's father signed and a valley charity ball that still needs his property and his name.
She is missing a bachelor auction, a donor list, and a reputation that opens doors, and Sebastian is the last man she wants to need.
He will supply all three if she spends the next year beside him at industry dinners, tastings, and every room he enters.
Gemma believes the bargain is only meant to make him look respectable, unaware that he has not forgotten the night she refused him before four hundred people.
Standing with him may be simple, but walking away will not be.
