Power and Petals

The Ice Queen Temptations Series, Book 1

By Shay Rourke

The deal was business. The kiss was not.

Vivienne Armstrong doesn’t do feelings. As CEO of one of New York’s most ruthless real estate firms, she has spent sixteen years turning Brooklyn neighborhoods into profit margins. Her corner office on the forty-second floor looks down on the world, and she likes it that way. Cold, controlled, untouchable.

Then she walks past a flower shop at dusk and watches a woman laugh through the window. And counts to eleven before she can make herself turn away.

Saffron Nash has sixty days. That is how long she has before Armstrong Equities tears down her sister’s flower shop, the shop Dahlia built from nothing, the shop that arranged Mrs. Okafor’s funeral flowers for free because grief shouldn’t come with a bill. Saffron storms into Vivienne’s marble tower in dirt-stained overalls and refuses to leave until the ice queen hears her out.

She expects a fight. She doesn’t expect the pull. The heat in those gray eyes. The way Vivienne’s composure cracks, just for a second, when their gazes lock across the desk.

Vivienne has always known how to demolish things. But Saffron Nash is rooted so deep that no amount of money can dig her out. And the closer Vivienne gets to the woman she’s supposed to evict, the more she realizes that some things can’t be reduced to numbers.

The clock is ticking. The board is watching. And the kiss that happens in the flower shop after dark is going to cost them both everything.

A steamy sapphic enemies-to-lovers romance with an ice queen CEO, a fierce florist, and a love that refuses to be bought out.