Ruin Me Slowly

He bought it to tear it down. She was hired to bring it back.

The Devereaux has stood over the Fairhaven cliffs for a hundred years. Now it stands empty, its great glass dome dark. Delaney Brooks is the restorer brought in to save it: ninety days, one impossible dome, and a budget that does not come close. What she does not know is that Rhys Devereaux, the man who owns the hotel, signed the demolition order before she ever walked in.

He has his reasons. His mother spent twenty years as a chambermaid in these halls, and one line in the housekeeping ledger ended her: Devereaux, Maren. Dismissed. Reason: theft. An inquiry that never happened. Rhys has bought forty-one buildings in twelve years. This one he bought for revenge.

But the dome has other plans. So does the woman who talks to buildings like they can hear her, whose connecting door opens only from her side, and who means to set the name of every worker the Devereaux ever wronged into the glass, in the light, where no one can erase them again.

To ruin it, he will have to go through her.

Ruin Me Slowly is the first book of The Devereaux Hotel, a contemporary romance about old buildings, older debts, and the slow work of being forgiven.

Some buildings are worth saving. So are some men.