Too Close to Walk Away

She knows better than to take this project.

She takes it anyway.

Ava Reyes has spent eleven years building a reputation on impossible events executed flawlessly. The Pinnacle project is everything she avoids - 42 floors, six weeks, and a client whose name alone has ended careers.

Noah Carter is difficult. Everyone says so. What they don't say is that he's precise, unexpectedly honest, and the kind of person who says permanence like he's thought about what it means. Ava notices this the way she notices structural problems: immediately, professionally, and with the intention of not letting it become relevant.

It becomes relevant.

What begins as professional friction accumulates the way feelings do when you've decided not to act on them - in small noticed things, in held silences, in the particular discipline it takes to stay on the right side of a line you've drawn yourself.

Set against the architecture and ambition of Chicago, Too Close to Walk Away is a slow burn romance about two people who are very good at their work, better at building walls, and completely unprepared for what happens when someone finally sees through them.

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