Avaline

Ava keeps her head down and her world small. Honestly, she prefers it that way. Working as a file clerk in the muggy basement of Mercer Holdings, tucked away among metal shelves, humming pipes, and boxes no one upstairs remembers exist. Down there, she can stay invisible. Safe. Unremarkable. Just the quiet girl who sorts paperwork and slips out of sight before anyone can ask her name. Which is exactly the way she wants it. At least until the day Kade Mercer sees her. Kade — the CEO, the man whose world is all glass offices, sharp suits, and people who bend when he speaks — isn’t supposed to notice the file girl from the basement. She isn’t polished. She isn’t strategic. She isn’t anything like the women who usually orbit his life. But the moment he sees Ava, something in him stops. There’s something about her. She’s soft where his world is hard. Quiet where his world is loud. Grounded where his world is constantly shifting. And he’s undone. Ava has no idea why Kade keeps turning up. Why he looks at her like she’s a secret he wants to learn by heart, or why her pulse stumbles every time he says her name. She only knows that Kade Mercer is the last person she should get close to — and the only one who makes her feel safe. When their worlds collide, it isn’t gentle. It’s electric. Unexpected. And a romance neither of them are ready for. Kade quickly realizes just how tender Ava is, and He will have to adjust his hardened ways to meet her in the middle. A delicious collision of two lives that were never meant to touch — and now can’t seem to pull apart. Because Kade doesn’t just want the file girl. He wants Avaline. And he’s willing to cross every line between their worlds to have her.

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