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📖 Paperback Edition — She came to buy the bookstore. Its owner made her work in it for thirty days.

Arden Vale is the acquisition executive Halcyon Urban Partners sends when sentiment gets in the way of profit. One last storefront stands between her company and a major redevelopment deal. Securing it could deliver the promotion she has spent years earning.

June Rivera has no intention of selling Lavender & Ink. Her bookstore is a home for Bellwether’s queer community, not an obstacle on a corporate presentation. Instead of accepting Arden’s offer, she proposes a different arrangement: spend thirty days shelving books, meeting the customers, and learning what the redevelopment would erase.

Arden agrees because she needs the building. She does not expect late-night inventory to become confession, arguments to give way to attraction, or June’s stubborn warmth to reach the parts of her life she has kept empty.

As the deadline approaches, Arden learns that Halcyon’s plans are not what they appeared to be. Wanting June is no longer something she can separate from the choices she makes at work. To earn a future with her, Arden will have to risk a career built on winning — and show that choosing people over profit means more than making another promise.

🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Inferno • Sapphic Enemies-to-Lovers Romance by Blair Lennox

Tropes: Enemies to Lovers • Thirty-Day Forced Proximity • Ice Queen • Corporate Executive × Bookstore Owner • Touch-Starved Heroine • Found Family • Praise Kink • HEA

Paperback details: 6 × 9 in • cream paper • matte cover. Includes a link to the exclusive bonus chapter. The ebook edition comes free with your paperback, emailed right after checkout.

⚠️ Content Warning: This novel contains graphic explicit sexual content, strong language, corporate power dynamics, career loss, isolation, burnout, and community displacement themes. Intended for readers 18+.

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