Bound by the Lie

di Calla Thorne (Autore)

Calla Thorne, 2026

Nora Voss is drowning in debt. Her late mother's medical bills have swallowed everything—the house, the savings, the life she used to have. The only way out is an inheritance locked behind a probate clause so absurd it feels like punishment: she must be legally married for six months before a single dollar releases. Declan Hale offers himself as the solution. A real estate developer with cold eyes and a colder handshake, he presents the arrangement as a simple transaction. Six months. A signature. A clean exit. She moves into his estate in the Calabasas hills—twelve thousand square feet of marble, glass, and silence. No neighbors. No staff she ever sees. No signal that holds. At first, the strangeness feels like adjustment. Keys she swore she left on the counter appear in her purse. Appointments she doesn't remember canceling are crossed out in her own handwriting. Her best friend stops returning calls. Sleep fractures into jagged, shallow hours. The house watches her. The walls listen. Declan is patient. Declan is concerned. Declan is the only solid thing left in a world that won't stop shifting beneath her feet. By the time she realizes the ground isn't moving—that someone has been removing it, brick by brick, from underneath her—she can no longer tell where the lie ends and she begins. And the man who built the cage is the only one who makes her feel safe inside it.

• Autore: Calla Thorne
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Calla Thorne
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798233235139