Naomi Pierce came to the Mirabeau to do one thing: value the failing seaside hotel, prepare it for sale, and leave before anyone started confusing nostalgia with profit.

Instead, she finds herself named heir to half the property alongside the last man she ever expected to see again.

Ben Carter is a gifted chef, a dangerous distraction, and the stranger Naomi shared one unforgettable night with in Lisbon. Now a dead heiress has tied them together in a seven-night residency designed to bring the Mirabeau roaring back to life in front of investors, critics, former guests, and the press.

If they succeed, they inherit the hotel.

If they fail, it goes to auction.

To save it, Naomi and Ben must look aligned in public, even as the heat between them keeps slipping out of control in private. In a hotel built on appetite, glamour, and discretion, every glance lasts too long, every touch means too much, and every night makes the line between strategy and surrender harder to hold.

The Mirabeau knows how to make people want things.

Naomi and Ben are about to find out how expensive that can be.

After Service is a high-heat contemporary romance with forced proximity, old-luxury atmosphere, sharp banter, public tension, private desire, and a love story that won’t stay contained.