State of Ruin

Name: State of Ruin
Author: Elodie Hart

by Elodie Hart

Genre: Romance Billionaire Romance Adult

96 pages

SINCLAIR: Everyone has a price. I just didn’t know paying it would ruin us both.

I set my sights on Elyse Ward at Alchemy and did what we Voss men do to secure the things we want: I purchased the privilege of getting her alone in a room.
Some might call my proposal indecent. It should have stayed transactional. God knows, that would have been cleaner.
But she looks at me like I’m a man instead of a name or a fortune or a legacy—and I have no idea what to do with that. No one has ever wanted me for me.
She has a whole world she’s holding together in Jersey. Her family is drowning, and she’s keeping them afloat. But at least her world is real.
I should have let her keep it.
My upbringing taught me how to erase threats: scandals, mistakes, even people.
So when it felt like she might slip through my fingers, I took a leaf out of the family playbook—and now the only woman I’ve ever shown my true self to won’t even look at me.
My name can buy anything.
Except, apparently, forgiveness.

State of Ruin is a standalone billionaire romance featuring a devastating betrayal and desperate groveling. It kicks off Alchemy New York, which is a spinoff of the bestselling Alchemy London series.

Tropes:
Billionaire romance
Betrayal & grovel
He’s an old-money nepo baby
She’s a carer
“Indecent proposal”
Class divide
Forced proximity
He falls first / obsessed hero
Secret relationship
Smut with feelings

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