A Hot Age Gap Romance - Unfurl
Sean Mayer
Casa editrice: BookRix
Sinossi
She came to ask for funding. She didn't plan on him.Maren is twenty-six, underpaid, overworked, and absolutely certain she does not belong in rooms full of people who say "authentic" like it's a compliment. As a community arts coordinator at HCCI, she has spent years building programs for kids whose neighborhoods the city keeps rebranding as "up-and-coming," as if they weren't already there. Now she has one shot at the grant that could change everything, and she walks into a civic mixer ready to swallow her nerves and ask.Then a stranger in a dark suit says exactly the right thing to exactly the wrong person, and Maren's carefully practiced composure goes sideways.Elias is older, quieter, and still in a way that makes everyone else look restless. He has silver at his temples and eyes that don't scan for usefulness. He is the kind of man who corrects a room without raising his voice. He is also, Maren very quickly learns, senior leadership at Harbor Meridian, the development firm that could help her project or quietly bury it.She should stay professional. She should stay focused. She should not still be thinking about him on the subway home with his business card bent in her fist.But Eli sees what she is building before she has to explain it. He asks questions that strip away the grant-language and get to the truth underneath. And the longer they circle each other across the line of power and funding and everything that is supposed to make this simple, the harder it becomes to pretend that what is happening between them is just professional.Of course, someone will try to use it against them. Someone always does.Unfurl is a slow-burn age gap romance about a woman learning to take up space, and a man willing to step back far enough to let her do it. For readers who believe the best love stories are the ones where both people grow.
