The Missing Note: A Blackwood Capital Romance
She built a career on what she could hide. He built his on what he could sense. One missing note could destroy them both.
Three years after a restaurant fire killed her mentor and stole her sense of smell, celebrated chef Mira Solano has done the impossible. She has rebuilt her career, secured millions in financing, and created Serein, an ambitious new restaurant designed to transform memory into experience.
No one knows she has complete anosmia.
Then Blackwood Capital sends Jonah Ellison.
A renowned perfumer and cross-sensory designer, Jonah experiences fragrance as color, shape, and movement. He is supposed to help Mira complete Serein's immersive concept. Instead, he discovers the truth she has protected at any cost.
Their solution is a private collaboration built on strict rules: no false claims, no hidden tests, no speaking for the other person's perception, and no becoming indispensable.
But rules are fragile things when attraction becomes trust, trust becomes intimacy, and the restaurant's investors begin using Jonah's work to decide whether Mira is still capable of leading.
As buried evidence from the fatal fire resurfaces, Mira and Jonah uncover a corporate pressure campaign, a scapegoated employee, and a former partner willing to turn disability, grief, and even love into leverage. To save Serein, they must expose the system that has been quietly judging them both.
But saving the restaurant may cost Mira her career.
Saving Jonah may require letting him leave.
And loving each other will mean accepting that neither can become the missing sense, missing answer, or missing note in the other's life.
The Missing Note is an emotionally charged contemporary romantic suspense novel featuring a fiercely driven chef, a brilliant perfumer with shifting synesthesia, corporate intrigue, forced proximity, open-door heat, and a hard-won happily ever after.A Blackwood Capital Romance by Jos phine Valcour. Each novel follows a new central couple while expanding the interconnected Blackwood Capital world.
Chef Mira Solano has built her career on one dangerous secret.
Since the fire that killed her mentor, she has been unable to smell anything.
Now millions of dollars, forty-three jobs, and the future of her new restaurant depend upon no one discovering the truth.
Then Jonah Ellison arrives.
The celebrated perfumer experiences fragrance as color and has been hired to design Serein's immersive sensory world. He quickly realizes that Mira cannot perceive the very element she is expected to control.
Their uneasy alliance becomes an intimate collaboration governed by ten rules. No lies. No hidden tests. No becoming indispensable.
But someone is testing them anyway.
As evidence from the fatal fire resurfaces, Mira and Jonah uncover a campaign designed to manufacture failure, remove inconvenient founders, and call the result objective judgment. Their growing love may be the only thing neither institution can predict.
It may also become one more weapon used against them.
To expose the truth, Mira must risk the career she rebuilt from ashes.
To remain beside her, Jonah must believe that changing perception does not erase the person he has always been.
And both must learn that love is not the missing piece that completes another person.
It is the choice to remain when nothing can be guaranteed.
The Missing Note A Blackwood Capital Romance by Jos phine Valcour
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