Billionaire Left His Briefcase at a Gas Station—Minimum-Wage Cashier Drove 40 Miles to Return It

Della Hartman is forty miles from the nearest city, closing up a gas station alone at midnight, when she finds a briefcase on the chest freezer—heavy, expensive, and tagged with a name the whole county knows: Theo Beaumont, the man who bought the old plant that took her father's livelihood with it. She should have left it in the lost-and-found box. Instead she belted it into the passenger seat and drove the wrong direction from everything sensible, toward a house full of lit windows and a man who wasn't expecting anyone—least of all her. Two people with every reason to keep their distance, and one long night to figure out why they can't.