
“You’ll work for me and answer to me — because I own you now.”
That’s the price Ethan Hayes names when Emma Carter begs him to fix the mess her brother dragged her into.
Emma is done saving people. Done being the responsible one. But desperation pushes her straight into the path of the cold, impossible billionaire next door.
Now she’s bound to him by a deal she never should’ve made.
And in a town that never forgets, crossing each other’s path and starting up an unexpected intimacy might be the most dangerous choice of all.