One counter girl. One billionaire. One table, reserved.

Jess Alvarez has worked the counter at Monroe’s Bakery in Brooklyn for eleven years, and she lives by one rule: she pays her own way. Always. She learned it from a father who said “I love you” every morning and bought her mother flowers with her mother’s own tips.

Lucas Ravenshaw has never had to pay his own way in his life. The charming middle brother of the Ravenshaw family runs its hotels and nightclubs, smiles his way out of everything, and has never once been told no by anyone who meant it.

Then he walks into Monroe’s Bakery, buys every croissant in the case to get her attention, and gets a look like a parking ticket instead.

So Lucas does something he has never done. He asks, and he waits. He splits the bill. He learns to fold bakery boxes, ride the subway, and live above a laundromat on Ninth Street with a radiator that clanks all night.

But when Jess’s building is sold to a mystery buyer, and her mother’s job at the Ravenshaw Grand hangs on a contract only Lucas can cancel, the man who has always fixed everything with money makes one choice behind her back. And when he finally gets down on one knee, the woman who never lets anyone pay for her has to decide what love is really worth.

Recklessly Reserved is Book Two in the Ravenshaw Brothers series. It can be read on its own and contains open-door romantic scenes for adult readers.