In Due Time

She wasn't looking for this. He wasn't allowed to want it.

Emelda Swetson has spent years building a life she can control — work is predictable, safe, and it never breaks your heart the way people do. Her employer, Ethan McAllister, seems built the same way: disciplined, private, giving nothing away. Which suits her fine. Distance is easy when you've already decided a man belongs to someone else.

Except Ethan isn't who she thinks he is. And somewhere between the boardrooms of London and the olive groves of Italy, the lie she's been protecting herself with starts to unravel — taking her careful, guarded life down with it.

In Due Time is a mature slow-burn romance for readers who like their tension patient, their romance clean, and their happy endings earned the hard way — through honesty, restraint, and the courage to want something that might actually be yours.