The Liability

She has spent eight years building a life no one can touch. Then he walks in and doesn't even look up.

Elara Vance doesn't do mess. Her office is spotless. Her schedule is locked. Her feelings are filed somewhere they can't cause problems. Eight years of 6 AM starts, cold espresso, and zero personal photographs has earned her everything she wants - including a seat at the table she was born to take.

Then the board drops Silas Dane into her office.

Six weeks. One desk. A corporate fraud investigation she was already running herself.

He doesn't ask her questions. He doesn't try to charm her. He just sets up on the secondary desk like he owns the air in the room, brings two coffees every morning without being asked, and takes her whole carefully ordered world apart one quiet, infuriating observation at a time.

Elara has rules. He is the reason she made them.

But the more they dig into the Meridian files together - late nights, locked doors, a fraud that runs deeper than either of them expected - the harder it gets to remember why the walls were there in the first place.

The Liability is a slow-burn forced proximity romance set in the high-stakes world of New York corporate finance. Expect enemies-to-lovers tension, a heroine with serious control issues, and a hero who never once tries to fix her.