A career ruined. A project impossible. A man she should never trust.
Three years ago, Nora Calloway had her future torn apart by Ethan Mercer. In front of hundreds of people, he dismissed her work as beautiful but impossible, and the fallout cost her more than her reputation. It cost her everything.
Now Ethan wants her back.
He has a new project on Chicago's lakefront, a $200 million development with one ambitious centerpiece: a community hub Nora is the only architect bold enough to design. The catch? She and Ethan must share a field office for thirty months, side by side, with no distance between them and no easy way out.
Nora tells herself she is there for the building, not the man. But as the work grows more urgent, and the walls between them begin to crack, she starts to see a different Ethan Mercer-one who is driven by old wounds, hard truths, and a vision he is willing to fight for. The more he challenges her, the harder it becomes to remember why she ever hated him.
In a trailer on the edge of the lake, where pressure can make a structure stand or collapse, Nora and Ethan will have to decide whether some things are meant to break... or be built to last.
