GHOSTED

Where Prototypes, Secrets, and Desire Combust

Demi Alder has never been quiet about what she wants, and she wanted Maddox Chen from the moment she saw him.
Beautiful, brilliant, and unapologetically bold, Demi is earning her PhD in Bioengineering while building a FemTech empire with her billionaire twin sister. She has never needed a man to feel powerful. Then she walks into the Saddle Bar, and the mysterious owner with the quiet voice and impossible stare becomes the one thing she cannot ignore.
She shoots her shot. He shuts her down cold.

Maddox takes one look at her heels, her confidence, her attention-seeking smile, and decides he knows exactly who she is: spoiled, reckless, trouble. He dismisses her like she is nothing more than a distraction.

He has never been more wrong in his life.

When Maddox finally lets his walls down, the connection between them hits fast and real and dangerously deep. Which is exactly why he runs. Demi’s world is full of genius and innovation and people changing the future. Maddox believes he is just a bartender with a tragic past and a future made of nothing but work and survival. So he disappears before she can realize she deserves more than him.

Demi refuses to fall apart. She has research to finish, a company to build, and a future that does not involve the man who ghosted her.

But the universe is not done with them.

Secrets surface. Lies collide. Sapphire, Maddox’s newest rooftop club, becomes the center of something far more dangerous than anyone realizes. When Demi walks through its doors, one choice will change everything. Maddox has spent his entire life trying to keep the people he loves safe. This time, safety may cost him the only woman he ever cared for.

A woman who refuses to dim her light.
A man who finally learns he was always enough.
A love powerful enough to survive any storm.

Ghosted is a high-heat romantic suspense filled with second chances, obsession, and a quiet man who would burn down the world for the woman he once underestimated.

Book 3 in The Saddle Bar Encounters Series.
Can be read as a standalone, but readers of Canceled and Deleted will catch every hidden thread, familiar face, and explosive twist in the Alder family world.