On paper, Ariana Vale has everything she ever wanted.
Her face sells clothes and jewellery, her paintings sell out exhibitions, and nearly a million strangers watch her life through a screen.
Only a handful of people know about the messages.
The photos slipped under doors.
The feeling of being watched long after the cameras turn off.
Her solution is simple: move into one of Erebor Holdings' towers, where security is brutal and the penthouse belongs to a man she'll never have to know.
Thorin Oakenshield built empires out of stone and glass. Governments bow. Rivals break. Tenants are background checks and signatures-except the red-haired painter who walked into his building three years ago and quietly rewired his world.
To Ariana, he's just her terrifyingly powerful landlord.
To Thorin, she's the one line he's never planned to cross.
Until a storm, a photograph, and a threat push them onto the same side of the glass.
Now the safest place she can stand is in the spotlight at his side.
And the man who's watched her from the shadows has to decide how far he's willing to go to keep her there-
As his tenant.
As his shield.
Or as the woman he was never supposed to touch.
Disclaimer
I don't own any of the Tolkien characters.