Debt Of Desire
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Celeste Ashcroft never agreed to sell her freedom-her father made that choice for her. As repayment for a business debt, she's handed over to the powerful Hawthorne family, forced to work as Julian Hawthorne's secretary under their watchful eye. It's humiliating, infuriating, and worst of all... inescapable.
Julian wants nothing to do with this ridiculous arrangement. He has no interest in being saddled with a woman, especially not one who glares daggers at him every chance she gets. But the more time they spend together, the more Celeste gets under his skin-in ways he never expected.
What starts as a cold, unwanted obligation soon turns into something far more dangerous. Because debts can be paid, contracts can be broken... but desire? That's a different kind of trap.
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