Circumstantial

By Monique Raye

She built walls for a living. He built doorways.
Corporate attorney Simone Adair doesn't lose - cases, arguments, or composure. So when she's assigned as lead counsel on Chicago's most high-profile affordable housing development, she expects the usual: late nights, hard negotiations, and a clear path to victory.
She does not expect Marcus Webb.
Two years ago, Marcus - a community architect with deep roots in the South Side - dismantled her client's case at a public hearing with devastating precision. She's never forgotten it. He's never apologized. And now they have ninety days to deliver a hundred-million-dollar project together or lose the careers that define them.
Forced proximity was supposed to be professional. It was never supposed to feel like this.
As deadline pressure mounts and walls begin to come down, Simone discovers that the man she wrote off as her enemy might be the one person who truly sees her - not the polished attorney, not the image, but the woman underneath who has been building structures around her heart since she was twelve years old.
Circumstantial is a slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers romance about the space between the life you build and the one that builds itself around you - and what happens when the most important deadline isn't the one on the calendar.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H17ZPKJZ
• ISBN13: 9798196290176
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 189 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"