To Burn Beside You

He's the devil in the boardroom. I'm the girl who talks back. When billionaire mogul Lucian Thorne's empire is threatened by a high-profile scandal, I'm hired to clean it up - PR poison control with a sharp tongue and no time for egos. But when the evidence points straight to me, he locks the gates to his kingdom and keeps me inside. Not as a guest. As a prisoner in a glass fortress. Now we live under the same roof. He watches me like a puzzle he's trying to solve. I push. He pulls. I insult him; he smirks like I'm a challenge he intends to break. But the real problem? The longer I stay, the more I wonder if I'm the one unraveling. Because there's a line between hate and heat - and Lucian Thorne doesn't draw lines. He crosses them.

Love was never part of the deal. But neither was surviving him.