A widowed businessman returns early to his quiet mansion, ready to confront the housekeeper, but what he sees changes everything

of a woman who, whatever her reservations, was not capable of being incurious about a person who interested her. By the end of the third day, she had asked Lila to show her how to mix the green the girls had been using for the mountains.

She did not reverse her reservations entirely, and Owen did not expect her to. What happened was more modest and continue reading …