Love Under Construction

She Built Her Career On Control. He's The One Thing She Can't Control. A Slow-Burn Romance.

By: Rumi Ashwood

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

She works on the top floor of the city's most prestigious law firm. He's restoring the building from the ground up.

Amelia Rhodes has spent a decade building the kind of life that doesn't leave room for mistakes. She's closing in on a partnership decision that will define everything she's worked for, and she needs this to be flawless—controlled, focused, uninterrupted. The construction crew dismantling her floor is already a problem. The contractor is a bigger one.

Logan Reid is there to do his job. Restore the building. Meet the deadline. Move on. He doesn't anticipate the polished, impossible lawyer he gets stuck with in an elevator one morning—or the way the narrow space between floors makes something about her very difficult to forget.

What follows is a slow collision. They share corridors, walk-throughs, fire alarms, and the particular tension of two people trying hard not to notice each other. Logan sees what Amelia works to keep hidden—the exhaustion behind the ambition, the loneliness behind the discipline, the woman underneath the armor. Amelia sees what she didn't expect—a man of quiet steadiness and the unnerving ability to remain completely unbothered by her.

Neither of them is looking for this. Neither of them is sure they can afford it.

And then there's Tessa—who has her own reasons for making sure this goes nowhere. Reasons she hasn't told him. Reasons that have nothing to do with Amelia, and everything to do with what she's afraid of losing.

Love Under Construction is a standalone contemporary romance about ambition and pressure, misjudgment and slow revelation, and the painstaking, necessary work of letting someone see you—when you've spent years making sure nobody could.

Includes an exclusive bonus chapter.