I don't negotiate. I don't forgive. And I never give back what's mine.

When Rosalind Calloway's late father's debts land on my desk, the smart move is to collect and walk away. She's the one thing in this city that isn't for sale — the daughter of a man who crossed my family and paid for it with everything he had left. She's not supposed to be beautiful. She's not supposed to look at me like I'm something worth trusting. And she is absolutely not supposed to be living under my roof for the next six months while she works off a debt that was never hers to carry.

I tell myself it's business. It stops being business the first night I hear her crying two rooms away and find myself outside her door instead of walking past it.

Rosalind Calloway came to collect her father's ledgers and leave. Instead she's trapped in Adrian Kessler's glass tower, answering to a man the whole city crosses the street to avoid — a man who watches her like he's already decided something she hasn't agreed to yet. She should hate him. She should run the second the arrangement ends. But the longer she stays, the harder it is to remember why she wanted to.

When a rival family decides the fastest way to hurt Adrian is through the girl he won't admit he's protecting, Rosalind has to choose: disappear into a life that was never truly hers, or stay and become the one thing Adrian Kessler has never risked — a weakness.

This is a full-length, emotionally intense standalone romance with very high heat, a dominant and possessive hero, power-imbalance tension throughout, and a guaranteed HEA. 18+ readers only.

Tropes: Forbidden Romance · Possessive Alpha · Forced Proximity · Dark Mafia · Debt Arrangement · Guardian-Adjacent Tension