Nora Vance has forty-eight hours to cover the surgery that will save her sister's sight and only one person willing to write the check. Damien Cross, the cold, exacting man who owns half the city, offers her the money for a single condition she doesn't fully understand until it's too late: she signs, she stays, she becomes his. When Nora walks into her new job weeks later, the contract she thought she'd escaped is sitting behind the CEO's desk, and it's wearing Damien's smile. He controls her paychecks, her schedule, and the terms of a bargain she can't afford to break, but the deeper he pulls her in, the harder it is to tell obsession from need. Then Adrian Wells, the quiet lawyer reviewing her contract, notices the clauses no one was meant to read, and offers her the one thing Damien never will: a way out. Caught between the man who owns her and the man who wants to free her, Nora learns that the most dangerous debts aren't the ones you owe, they're the ones you start to want to keep paying….
