Chasing the Heiress

Cordelia Ashford-Vane has an inheritance she doesn't want and a department store she can't keep. Julian Reyes has a demolition permit and a chip on his shoulder the size of the building her family built. They meet at a wedding. They fight on the dance floor. Somebody photographs it. And now the entire city is watching a war between a heiress who could buy anything and a billionaire who wants to take the only thing she actually cares about. He offers her a bet: six weeks to prove the store can survive. If she wins, he walks away. If she loses, she marries the wrecking ball. She takes it. She spends six weeks in the building he grew up in, and he spends six weeks watching her fight for a place he was raised to hate. On the last day, she wins. And he does the thing nobody watching predicted. He hands her the deed.