UNWILLING HEART
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An age-gap, slow-burn romance of obsession, restraint, and the one connection neither of them saw coming.
Mia Bennett was supposed to be invisible - just a high school senior helping her best friend return a forgotten ID to her mom's office at Whitmore Tower. She never expected to catch the attention of the building's owner: Jordan Whitmore, the thirty-nine-year-old billionaire known for his cold heart, brutal mind, and the empire he built out of grief and distance.
He wasn't supposed to look at her.
She wasn't supposed to look back.
But in a single stolen glance, something ancient and dangerous awakens in Jordan - a hunger for softness, light, her. And for the first time in decades, control slips through his fingers.
He's too old.
She's too young.
But some hearts never ask for permission.
As secrets, power, and desire begin to entangle them, Mia must decide if stepping into his world is worth risking her own... and Jordan must face the truth he's spent a lifetime burying:
Love isn't safe.
But maybe, just maybe, it's worth the fall.
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