THE NOTICE

For twenty-nine years, they have never once been in the same room.

Eleanor Vane has spent three decades as the most discreet solicitor in Holborn — the senior partner who never lies and never volunteers, who has closed other people’s worst weeks into boxes in a basement and quietly called it a life. Ray Bristow built a cold-storage empire so enormous that half the country eats through his machinery without knowing his name. Between them: twenty-nine years of letters, faxes, and four-in-the-morning calls across time zones — a file that has outlasted every promotion, every ordinary friendship, and every reason either of them ever had to stay in one place.

Now Eleanor has handed in her notice. She has one season to close every live file at Hessle & Vane before she leaves — and his is the oldest, the heaviest, and the one that cannot transfer to anyone else while he is standing in another country.

So he comes home. Three afternoons a week, in a basement full of deed boxes, they open thirty years of his life written in her hand. Every box moves them a little closer to each other, and a little closer to the date she has already put in writing.

What neither of them expects is what all that correspondence was really for — or what it will cost to finally say, out loud, in front of other people, the thing that was never once in a letter.

THE NOTICE is Book Seven of LONDON BILLIONAIRES , a series of interconnected London romances — new couple, full happy ending, every time — each about the one thing an extraordinarily wealthy person cannot buy. This one is time. Reads complete on its own.