Close Quarters: An Enemies to Lovers Billionaire Romance

Five years ago, he demolished her dreams. Now, he’s the only one who can provide the foundation to save them.

Vivienne Hart is an architect of precision. She craves order, logic, and structures that don't crack under pressure. But her own foundation is failing. With her boutique Brooklyn firm on the edge of insolvency, she’s forced to accept a contract she swore she’d never a multi-million-dollar resort redesign for the man who once cold-bloodedly blacklisted her.

Callum Ashford is the ice-cold CEO of Ashford Properties. He doesn't build; he acquires. He doesn't feel; he calculates. To the world, he is an untouchable predator. To Vivienne, he is the catastrophic force that nearly destroyed her career.

The A fifty-acre luxury resort on the rugged Connecticut coast, plagued by sabotage and boardroom secrets. The Forced Identical A-frame cottages on a lonely bluff, separated by nothing but a shared cedar deck and five years of unspoken resentment.

As the coastal storms roll in, the professional boundaries begin to erode. Vivienne discovers that the man she hated is the only anchor strong enough to hold her—and Callum realizes that the woman he pushed away is the only genius capable of seeing the light through his father’s dark legacy.

But in the high-stakes world of the Sterling Circle, trust is a structural liability. When a shadow from the past threatens to burn the project to the ground, they must decide if their connection is built on bedrock—or if the whole superstructure is about to collapse.

Close Quarters is a full-length, steamy, enemies-to-lovers billionaire romance. It is Book 1 in the Sterling Circle series, featuring a high-competency heroine, a protective "alpha-logician" hero, and architectural metaphors that will leave you breathless.