Hard Contract

Eight years ago, Jae-Hyun Yuu walked out of Raylen Clark's life without warning-shattering her heart and leaving her with a secret she's guarded ever since.

Now Raylen is a bestselling author, a fiercely protective single mother, and a woman who's learned how to survive without him. She's built a life from the ashes he left behind-controlled, independent, and carefully untouched by the past.

Until Jae-Hyun comes back.

He's no longer the boy who taught her how to burn. He's the devastatingly powerful CEO of a global publishing empire, and he wants her-professionally, personally, and far more intimately than he's willing to admit. He doesn't just want her books under his name.

He wants Raylen back in his bed. In his arms. Under his control.

The chemistry between them is instant and incendiary, every look loaded, every touch a mistake waiting to happen. But Jae-Hyun has no idea about the daughter Raylen's kept hidden-or the truth that could ruin everything. And Raylen isn't sure her heart could survive losing him again.

His proposal is as seductive as it is dangerous:

a multimillion-dollar contract with one unbreakable clause-marry him, let him be a father, and give their passion one last chance to become something real.

Caught between desire and self-preservation, Raylen must decide if she's willing to risk her heart, her career, and her secrets for a man who once destroyed her... and could do it again.

Because this time, the stakes are higher.

The attraction is ruthless.

And saying yes might be the most reckless-and irresistible-choice of her life.