The Staff Table

As Ward Capital acquires sixty percent of the restaurant company that Naomi Hale has worked hard to keep running for the past nine years, she expects layoffs, spreadsheets, and new people who can only see the numbers and not the individuals. Gabriel Ward appears. Smooth, spoiled, and dangerously attractive, Gabriel is tasked with learning the ropes prior to his family making their decisions about what is kept and what is discarded. Naomi is his unwilling tour guide and the one charged with writing up an evaluation of thirty-one employees whose future could depend on it. As Gabriel learns the loyal system that exists at the staff table of Josephine’s, his priorities shift, along with his emotions towards Naomi. But Gabriel has one thing he keeps from Naomi. It is done for her own good. Naomi trusts him implicitly. Lies can sometimes start from a good place.