Anaya Amani has spent fifteen years walking into broken corporations and walking out with blueprints for something stronger. But no blueprint teaches you how to rebuild your own life.
When a high-stakes project throws her together with Fritz Thorne-a quietly intense director who sees past her polished armor-Anaya's carefully constructed walls begin to crack. She's a single mother of two. She's been married, divorced, and burned. She has rules. Firm ones. Rules that do not include falling for a colleague who brings her a peace lily instead of cut flowers and changes everything without trying.
Just as their worlds begin to weave together, Anaya delivers a truth Fritz never anticipated: she does not want marriage. She does not want more children. The life she offers is complete as it is.
For Fritz, a man who has spent thirty years certain of who he is, the revelation forces him to question everything. Can love be enough when it doesn't come in the package he imagined? And can a woman who has spent her life anchoring everyone else finally allow herself to be held?
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