She took the job to survive three months. She never expected to become his obsession.Amelia Carter needs this job. A three-month contract as personal assistant to Adrian Blackwood — the coldest, youngest CEO in London — is supposed to be simple. Show up. Follow the rules. Leave when it's over.Rule ten is the only one that matters: Never get too close to me.But Amelia keeps breaking it. And the more she pulls away, the more Adrian unravels — cold turning to obsession, distance turning to something dangerously possessive.Then she finds her father's name buried in Blackwood Enterprises' oldest files. Her contract wasn't random. Adrian hired her on purpose — and he's known the truth about her family since the day she walked through his door.Now someone else knows it too. Adrian's sister is missing. Her father has vanished. And a stranger keeps texting her secrets no one else will say out loud.Amelia has two choices: run from the man who's becoming obsessed with her... or stay long enough to uncover the truth that could destroy them both.Some secrets aren't meant to be found. Some obsessions aren't meant to be escaped.

Zara Adeyemi has spent the last year quietly holding her father's Lagos textile empire together, hiding just how close it is to collapse. When a London private equity firm sends in their sharpest closer to negotiate a buyout, she's blindsided to find Kanmi Osunde on the other side of the table — her older brother's best friend, the boy who vanished from their lives ten years ago without a single word.Now he's back, older, harder, and holding the future of everything her father built in his hands. Forced to work side by side to save the company, old wounds resurface alongside a connection neither of them expected to survive a decade of silence. But as buried secrets, a scheming board member, and Kanmi's own painful past threaten to unravel everything, Zara must decide whether the boy from Sunday dinners is really gone — or just waiting to come home.A slow-burn enemies-to-lovers romance about family, betrayal, and the kind of love worth waiting a decade for.