The Iron & The Ivy
By @john1208
Elara Vance's world is crumbling. The last historic landmark she's vowed to protect, a sprawling, ivy-clad art deco library her grandmother fought to preserve, stands directly in the path of Elias Thorne's next gleaming skyscraper. He’s the ruthless "Titan of Steel," a man whose ambition knows no bounds, and he sees her, and everything she cherishes, as an irritating obstruction. Their clash is legendary, fueled by public debates and whispered animosity. But when a city council ruling, sparked by a PR disaster on his part, mandates an unprecedented joint cultural project as a condition for his demolition permit, they are thrown together. Elara must work alongside the man who represents everything she despises, if she is to salvage any part of her legacy. Every clipped command from him, every brush of his hand, sends a jolt through her, a dangerous magnetism she fights with every beat of her desperate heart. Can she melt the ice around his formidable will, or will her own resolve shatter against his impenetrable ambition, losing everything?
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