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Lady Eliza Weatherford had always believed emotions were like sauces, best served on the side, and never allowed to stain the table linen. This ethos had been maintained throughout a long and highly successful career that was celebrated with business awards, international attention and way too many friends for any one human. Eliza was 52, a legendary hospitality consultant and cold-blooded perfectionist. She had money, a beautiful home, rather too many nieces and nephews whose names she had memorised, and doting parents who had remained in great health despite advancing age. Eliza boarded another private jet in Neice after salvaging a failing three-star restaurant in Monaco. Wearing an immaculate cream trouser suit, Prada sunglasses, and the smirk of someone who has fired a Michelin chef before breakfast, this was another ordinary day in the life of a happy milionairess. Then came Sebastian Knox, 29, tousled, charming, rumpled in that rich-boy-on-his-third-startup way. He is the co...

  📘  The Olive Grove Agreement: A Hot and Hilarious French Villa Romance – A Mills and Swoon Short Subtitle (optional): One reluctant heiress. One infuriatingly hot ex-chef. And one very firm agreement made over figs and fornication. Title: The Olive Grove Agreement A Mills and Swoon Short Where inheritance meets innuendo and everything smells faintly of rosemary and bad decisions. Cass Winter was not in the mood for a French villa. She had deadlines, a dodgy knee, and the last time she tried to drive on the right side of the road she’d accidentally parked in a fountain. But apparently, her great-aunt Iris had passed away and left her La Maison du Hérisson , a once-grand property in the hills of Provence. And so, armed with nothing but SPF 50 and mild resentment, Cass arrived. It was hotter than she expected. And louder. Especially in the garden, where someone was swearing in French and violently attacking an olive tree. She squinted. He was shirtless. Tanned. And ...