Mariners' Rest

From the author of Market Price comes the sixth novel in the Mariner's Rest series.

Ariel built the floor at Mariner's Rest. She trained the servers, specified the
sightlines, and helped make the room what it is. Then she left to build something
of her own - and watched it taken from her by people who didn't understand what
they had.

Now she's back. Not as a server. As the General Manager.

The room is the same. The standard she built is still running in the people who
stayed. Luis is behind the bar. Thibault is in the kitchen. Renata has been holding
the floor together for three years in her absence. The room works.

What doesn't work is the compensation model. The produce contracts haven't been
renegotiated in three years. The private dining room is underpriced by eighteen
percent. And the salary Ariel accepted - because it was the offer on the table -
doesn't reflect the role as it actually exists.

She has a notebook. She has fourteen weeks. She has the track record she intends
to build before she says anything to anyone with the authority to change it.

Happy Hour is a novel about what it costs to come back. About the gap between
responsibility and recognition. About managing a room you once served in, and what
you learn when the room you built starts to teach you back.

Mariner's Rest, Book Six.