He has an empire to claim. She has a family to save. Neither expected the other to become the price. Ace Sullivan is a man made of ice and ruthless ambition. Cold, arrogant and bitter. After a lifetime of loss, love is a liability he refuses to afford. At 31 years old, he has everything a man could want and a heart he has no intention of ever giving away. Ruby Barkley is everything he is not. A 22 year old bright, cheerful and struggling business student who is utterly unbothered by Ace’s terrifying aura. To save her parents’ struggling business, she takes a high-paying private caretaking job for the wealthy Sullivan matriarch. Their explosive first encounter is pure venom, a battle of wills between a man who commands total control and a woman who refuses to bow. When a sudden reading of the family trust lays down a cruel mandate, Ace is faced with an ultimatum that threatens to strip him of everything he has fought to protect. To claim his throne, he must marry the vibrant, headstrong woman he despises. Ruby needs the financial lifeline; Ace needs the empire. It should be a convenient arrangement. Bound by an ironclad marriage contract, they enter a marriage built on mutual disdain. Trapped under the same roof, their hatred morphs into something darker and more consuming. Beneath the cold vows and carefully drawn boundaries, what was meant to be a convenient arrangement soon becomes a dangerous obsession neither of them can escape. She moves through his life like sunlight finds a crack in stone, slowly thawing the ice he’d built around his heart. The woman who was meant to be a means to an end becomes the one temptation Ace can no longer resist. Ruby never saw it coming either. He was the opposite of everything she thought she wanted. And yet here she was, questioning everything she thought she knew about love, falling for a man who was everything she never imagined wanting and everything she could no longer imagine living without. Just as the lines between enemies and lovers blur and real feelings take root, a dark secret threatens to shatter their fragile bond. Can she really stay? Is love really enough? The man who has never begged for anything in his life, is about to discover how far he’ll go to win his wife back.

Three months. One fake engagement. One ruthless billionaire. Falling in love was never part of the deal. The last person Serena Bloom expects to find waiting in a luxury hotel penthouse is Luca Ferraro, the billionaire CEO about to acquire the company where she has spent two years building her career. But when her boss storms in accusing her of leaking confidential financial audits to Luca, Serena finds herself at the centre of a scandal she had nothing to do with. Luca recognizes a setup when he sees one. He kisses Serena in front of the cameras and announces that she’s his girlfriend. But a girlfriend isn’t enough to convince the public their relationship is genuine, so Luca raises the stakes. Suddenly, Serena isn’t just his girlfriend. She’s his future wife. Cold, calculating, and accustomed to getting what he wants, Luca Ferraro has no use for love. Serena Bloom may be sweet and shy, but she’s determined to build a life on her own terms and refuses to bend to a man simply because he has money and power. Neither is looking for love, but their fake engagement might just change that. After losing her job, she finds herself working for the man she’s pretending to love and sharing a roof with the man who makes her pulse race as easily as he tests her patience. Their arrangement has rules and an expiration date, but as their fake romance deepens, she begins to see the man behind his ruthless reputation, and Luca discovers that Serena has become far more than a convenient solution to his problems. Just as their original three months draw to a close, an unexpected turn of events gives them a convenient excuse to extend the engagement for another three. Neither is ready to admit that the extra time is exactly what they secretly want. When Serena’s disgraced former boss asks to meet and apologize for what he did to her, she has little reason to suspect a trap. But the meeting leaves her framed once again, this time for stealing Luca’s confidential acquisition files. And unlike before, there’s evidence against her. Luca believes she has betrayed him, and no matter how desperately she insists she’s innocent, he refuses to listen. It breaks Serena’s heart that the man she trusted most is the one who condemns her when she needs his faith the most. Determined to clear her name, Serena investigates the accusations herself, uncovers the scheme, and exposes the people who set her up. But by the time Luca discovers the truth, his mistrust may have cost him the woman he loves. Luca must confront his fear of commitment and his mistrust, and the damage he caused by refusing to trust Serena. Serena must decide whether she can trust him again after he abandoned her when she needed him most.

“I slept with my boss?!” Sweet, shy, and introverted despite her fiercely independent personality, Isabel Carter is a romantic who keeps her heart in a cage. After discovering the man she loved and trusted had been unfaithful, she does something completely out of character. She goes out, drinks too much, and spends one reckless night with a stranger she never expects to see again. Until she walks into her new job and discovers that stranger is her boss. He is everything she should stay away from. But despite his cold nature, he makes her feel everything when she’s with him. Passionate. Protected. Truly wanted. He’ll cross every line to keep her… including breaking his own. Cold, arrogant, and oddly charming, 35 year old Jason Vance is a master of control. ​Love is a liability he doesn’t entertain. Until an unforgettable night with a breathtaking stranger shatters his absolute discipline. Except Isabel has been on his mind long before that night. He has watched her from a distance, become fascinated by her, and convinced himself that the only way to finally get her out of his head is to have her once. One night. One mistake. She becomes his fixation, his temptation, and the one woman he can’t seem to let go of. What was supposed to get Isabel out of his system only makes his need for her impossible to ignore. However, their relationship is built on a dangerous secret and tainted by lies. Because Jason is hiding something. Was their first meeting really just a coincidence? He never planned to fall for her. Now he’ll do anything to keep her safe. Some secrets are kept out of love. Some are kept out of fear. And the danger circling Isabel is closer than either of them knows. When the truth finally surfaces, will she see the man who would burn the world down to keep her safe, or only the lies he told to do it?

Four years ago, Jennie Anderson shattered the heart of the only man she'd ever loved, Jace Sterling, leaving New York without a word. She thought she was protecting him.Now, she's back, and the boy she left behind has become New York's most formidable CEO, Jace Sterling. Now she's the Director of Real Estate Investments at The Sterling Group, his company, forcing them into a tense professional proximity for the past three months. He despises her for the past, yet the magnetic pull between them is a force he's never been able to extinguish, a dangerous current humming beneath the surface of every boardroom meeting and corporate event.Unable to deny his desires anymore,Jace makes her a cold, cruel proposition: a no-strings-attached arrangement. He'll have her in his bed, but he will never give her his forgiveness, his trust, or his heart. It's a business deal, pure and simple, designed to prove he's immune to the power she once held over him.Jennie wants more than stolen nights and temporary passion. She wants the man who once loved her, the chance to make things right, and a future with the man she never stopped loving.Can Jennie make Jace believe that her leaving was never a choice of the heart, or will his bitterness destroy the love they once shared? And as she risks everything for a man who refuses to love her, will she win back his heart, or lose herself trying?

They were each other’s first love.Before the money, the success, and the years of resentment, there was just him and her. Young, hopelessly in love and certain they would have a future together.Until her parents tore it all apart.Determined to give their daughter the best life possible, her parents sent her abroad to study. She begged to stay. She fought them. But at that age, she had little power over the decisions made for her, and eventually, she was forced to leave the only boy she had ever loved.He never forgave her.Years later, she returns to New York—to the man she never stopped loving.Except the boy she left behind is gone.In his place is a successful, wealthy, powerful man who wants nothing to do with her.And somehow, she has just started working for his company.Now they are forced to see each other every day, pretending the past doesn't exist while every glance brings back everything they tried to forget. He believes she abandoned him the moment her life became bigger than theirs.But explaining that doesn't erase the years he spent believing she chose to leave him.Then he offers her a deal.No promises. No forgiveness. And certainly no love.She knows it isn't everything she wants from him.But she also knows she'll take it.Because if accepting his terms is the only way to stay close to him, she'll take whatever he is willing to give, even if it means settling for everything except the one thing she truly wants: his love.He refuses to forgive her.She refuses to give up on him.And as old feelings resurface and the walls between them begin to crack, she finds herself fighting for the man she lost years ago.But winning back the heart of the man she broke may be harder than she ever imagined.Because sometimes, loving someone isn't enough.Sometimes, you have to convince them that you won't leave again.And this time, she intends to stay.