Ruined Memories

Ten years ago, Brynn Sterling destroyed the only boy who ever loved her.She stood in the rain on her father's lawn and told Jaxon Cross he would never be enough. She watched him drive away in a rusted pickup truck with nothing but a broken heart and a ninety-three-dollar ring he never got to give her.She had her reasons. She'll take them to her grave.Now Jaxon is back.He's not the boy from the wrong side of the tracks anymore. He's a billionaire. Cold. Ruthless. Impeccably dressed and completely unrecognizable — except for the way he looks at her, like a man who's been starving for a decade and just found the thing that ruined his appetite for everything else.He's bought her mortgage. Her father's debts. Every lawyer in the county.And he's offering her a deal: six months as his live-in assistant — total obedience, total availability, total submission to his schedule — or he takes her childhood home and puts her belongings on the lawn by October.She signs.She shouldn't.Because Jaxon Cross didn't come back for the house. He came back for her. And the contract he's written isn't a business arrangement — it's a cage designed by a man who turned heartbreak into a fortune and fury into a profession.But Brynn Sterling has a secret that could shatter every wall he's built. A truth about the night she left him — a truth so devastating it would rewrite the last ten years of both their lives.The only question is whether she'll survive long enough to tell it.Ruined Memories is a full-length, standalone dark second-chance romance with a guaranteed HEA. This book contains themes of financial coercion, power imbalance, explicit content, and a hero who needs to grovel on his knees before he deserves her. Reader discretion is advised.