Touched by Desire

One signature costs Ava Carter her company. The fine print delivers her straight back to the man she ran from.

Ava’s parents built Carter & Hayes into an empire—until a brutal merger strips her of control and hands it to Elias Rook. Three years ago, she walked out of his life without a word. Now he owns the majority, holds her proxy, and sets the rules with the calm certainty of a man who never learned the meaning of “let go.”

Ava comes to negotiate terms. Elias turns it into a reckoning. Boardrooms become battlegrounds, every meeting a test of obedience versus pride, and every stolen touch a reminder that desire is the one leverage neither of them can deny.

Then the warnings start: anonymous photos, watchers in the dark, threats that feel too precise to be random. Someone is circling Elias’s empire—and Ava is the easiest way to cut him open.

To survive, she has to decide what’s more dangerous: trusting the man who can protect her, or staying alone long enough to be taken.

Touched by Desire is a high-heat dark billionaire romance packed with power games, obsession, and romantic suspense.