Nica writes

Aurora Bloom buried her father in the rain and walked away with a debt that should have destroyed her. Forty-seven million dollars. Due at once. The man who held the papers was Xavier Ashcroft, a cold corporate raider the city feared. People who crossed him vanished from the business world. He did not want money she could never pay. He wanted her. The deal was simple and absolute. One year as his personal companion. Live in his fortress. Follow every rule. Belong to him in the ways the contract demanded. In return the debt would die and her sister’s medical care would be funded for life. Aurora signed in red ink because she had no other choice. Now she lives behind high black walls under constant watch. Xavier is possessive, controlled, and far more dangerous than the rumors. He studies her like a puzzle he intends to solve. A rival already circles, sensing leverage. Locked rooms and empty greenhouses hide pieces of a past that ties their families together. Aurora planned only to survive the year. But every sharp word she throws, every boundary he pushes, pulls them deeper into a claim neither can easily escape. The debt is gone. The real cost is only beginning.