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He knows how to manage a vineyard. He does not know how to manage the man who has moved into his heart.
Joaquim returns to the family vineyard after his father's sudden death, carrying grief that has barely had time to settle and a future full of obligations. The harvest cannot wait, the family expects him to hold everything together, and the estate's fragile balance leaves little room for mistakes. The work is familiar; the life ahead is not.
Lachlan is forty-four, experienced, exacting, and accustomed to keeping both people and operations on schedule. At twenty-nine, Joaquim is still trying to work out which parts of his inheritance he wants to preserve and which he needs to change. Their age difference is only one of the complications between them. Family pressure, a lawsuit, financial strain, and the demands of the vineyard make any relationship a risk.
Lachlan's attention can feel like shelter, but it can also become too much. His instinct to manage every variable collides with Joaquim's need to make his own choices. As attraction deepens, they must face the difference between care and control, devotion and possession, and protection and interference.
The vineyard offers no easy escape. Every season brings its own deadline, every decision has consequences, and the people around them have strong opinions about who should inherit the future. Joaquim and Lachlan must decide whether their connection can survive honest boundaries and whether love can grow without one man taking charge of the other's life.
Vicious Devotion is a forbidden age-gap MM romance about grief, family legacy, vineyard life, obsession, and the difficult work of building a relationship that respects both desire and independence. A mature, emotionally intense love story for readers who enjoy complicated men, atmospheric settings, and devotion that must learn its limits.
Joaquim returns to the family vineyard after his father's sudden death, carrying grief that has barely had time to settle and a future full of obligations. The harvest cannot wait, the family expects him to hold everything together, and the estate's fragile balance leaves little room for mistakes. The work is familiar; the life ahead is not.
Lachlan is forty-four, experienced, exacting, and accustomed to keeping both people and operations on schedule. At twenty-nine, Joaquim is still trying to work out which parts of his inheritance he wants to preserve and which he needs to change. Their age difference is only one of the complications between them. Family pressure, a lawsuit, financial strain, and the demands of the vineyard make any relationship a risk.
Lachlan's attention can feel like shelter, but it can also become too much. His instinct to manage every variable collides with Joaquim's need to make his own choices. As attraction deepens, they must face the difference between care and control, devotion and possession, and protection and interference.
The vineyard offers no easy escape. Every season brings its own deadline, every decision has consequences, and the people around them have strong opinions about who should inherit the future. Joaquim and Lachlan must decide whether their connection can survive honest boundaries and whether love can grow without one man taking charge of the other's life.
Vicious Devotion is a forbidden age-gap MM romance about grief, family legacy, vineyard life, obsession, and the difficult work of building a relationship that respects both desire and independence. A mature, emotionally intense love story for readers who enjoy complicated men, atmospheric settings, and devotion that must learn its limits.