The Heirloom Clause

Elara Vance is willing to lose everything to save the one thing she has left: her grandfather’s dusty, debt-ridden bookstore. Her quiet life of struggle is shattered by Alistair Blackwood, a ruthless billionaire developer who sees her legacy as the final obstacle to his new skyscraper. When his life-changing offer is met with a fiery, absolute refusal, Alistair is faced with an ironclad heirloom lease he cannot legally break.

So he devises a new strategy. If he can't buy her out, he’ll smoke her out. He buys the building and moves into the apartment directly above her, launching a sadistic war of attrition with round-the-clock construction and escalating psychological warfare. But their high-stakes battle, fought through floorboards and over wifi signals, creates an unexpected side effect in their forced proximity. A raw, undeniable chemistry that crackles in every stolen glance and heated argument.

As the line between hate and obsession blurs, Elara is trapped between fighting for her past and succumbing to a dangerously tempting future. She must decide what’s scarier: losing her grandfather’s legacy, or surrendering to the man determined to destroy it.