Too Close To Control
By Blair Weston
Steamy
Lila Marchetti does not lose control.
Not in boardrooms. Not in headlines. Not in the billion-dollar pharmaceutical empire she built with brilliance, discipline, and a spine sharp enough to make competitors flinch.
In Newport, her yacht rules the harbor, her hotel suite is always waiting, and the world is watching as she prepares for the maiden launch of her commercial spaceflight venture—a glittering risk tied to a merger that depends on her spotless public image.
Cassian Ferraro has spent years making Lila’s impossible life look effortless.
As her executive assistant, he runs her calendar like a chessboard, anticipates disasters before they happen, and keeps his own dreams locked away: a half-finished novel, a hunger for something quieter, and a firm refusal to be dazzled by money.
Then a promotional lottery puts Cassian on Lila’s history-making spaceflight.
The headlines are bad enough.
Sharing her orbit is worse.
When Cassian’s apartment building floods, the only practical solution is Lila’s guest wing. Suddenly, the woman who never bends is far too close—in Newport harbor nights, in a flagship hotel suite that feels too intimate, behind the hidden door of a private speakeasy, and in a midnight greenhouse heavy with tropical orchids.
Lila knows how to manage risk.
She does not know how to manage wanting the one man she cannot buy, intimidate, or neatly dismiss.
But when a sabotaging brother, a fabricated affair, and an NDA Cassian never fully understood threaten to destroy them both, Lila must decide what matters more: the empire she built to survive, or the man who sees the grief behind the glass.
Because Cassian doesn’t want her money.
He wants the one thing Lila has never trusted anyone with.
The truth.
Too Close to Control is a steamy contemporary billionaire romance featuring a powerful female CEO, her chessmaster executive assistant, forced proximity, workplace tension, Newport luxury, emotional walls, family sabotage, and a heroine who has to learn that love cannot be controlled.
