Hi, I'm Esther Lumiie, and I write the kind of love stories that keep you up at night. Not because they're sweet. Because they're not.
I've always been drawn to the complicated kind of love. The second chances that shouldn't work but do. The secrets people carry alone for years because the truth feels more dangerous than the lie. The people who were absolutely right for each other and couldn't figure out how to stay. That's the space I write in — dark enough to feel real, emotional enough to feel earned, and always, always with an ending worth fighting for.
I believe the best love stories aren't the ones that come easy. They're the ones that cost something. The ones where you're still thinking about the characters three days after you finished the last chapter.
If you like slow burns that finally explode, heroines with armor they had to earn, and heroes who never actually stopped loving the one person they were supposed to be over, you're exactly who I write for.
Come read with me. đź–¤
Warning: I am not responsible for lost sleep or book hangovers.
He bought her father’s debt. Then he offered her a contract she couldn’t refuse.Vivienne Calloway rebuilt her life from nothing after a scandal destroyed her law career. Cold, brilliant, and impossible to control, she has one rule: never let powerful men own any part of her again.Then Kade Morrow walks back into her life.Billionaire. Corporate predator. A man so controlled he barely looks human sometimes.When her father’s empire begins collapsing under hidden debts and federal investigations, Kade offers Vivienne an eighteen-month contract at Morrow Global — one that ties her directly to him.She signs it to survive.What she doesn’t know is that Kade has been watching her for years.And worse?He didn’t save her family out of kindness.He built the trap himself.Now Vivienne is trapped inside a world of dangerous secrets, corporate warfare, obsession, surveillance, and a man whose version of love feels terrifyingly close to possession.But Kade Morrow isn’t the only threat watching her.Someone is leaking secrets from inside Morrow Global. Someone wants Kade destroyed. And Vivienne may be the perfect weapon to do it.Because the deeper she falls into Kade’s world, the more she realizes one horrifying truth:The most dangerous man in the room might also be the only one willing to burn the world down to keep her alive.A dark billionaire romance filled with obsession, psychological tension, manipulation, explosive twists, and a dangerously possessive love story.