Price of Breath

She owed him $1.9 million. He didn't want her money.Elara Sinclair signed a loan to save her father's failing business. When he died and the debt collapsed on her, she became the property of Sterling Voss — a ruthless private equity lender who operates entirely within the law, which makes him far more dangerous than any criminal.His offer is simple. Move into his penthouse. Follow his rules. For every day she complies, her balance drops by six thousand dollars. He will control what she eats. When she sleeps. What she wears. Who she speaks to. And if she disobeys, the clock resets.The door is unlocked. She can leave whenever she wants.But leaving means losing everything — including the only man who ever made the unbearable weight of survival feel like someone else's problem.As weeks turn into months, Elara stops fighting his control and starts craving it. Sterling stops seeing her as an asset and starts needing her in ways his spreadsheets can't measure. What began as a contract becomes a dependency neither of them can afford — and neither of them wants to break.The Price of Breath is a full-length standalone dark romance featuring a morally black hero, explicit content, financial domination, praise and denial kinks, and an ending that offers no apology. Intended for mature readers.