Elyias

The Ledger of Shadows
A twelve-month contract. A multi-billion-dollar empire. And a fated blood-bind that refuses to be managed.
Brandi Hallowson was just a human assistant on the forty-second floor of Celestial Holdings, perfectly content scanning receipts, surviving her drafty Queens apartment, and keeping her head down. She knew how the corporate world worked: venture capitalists leveraged, manipulated, and treated people like numbers on a spreadsheet.
She had no idea the billionaires on the top floor weren't human at all.
When a freak elevator anomaly causes an ancient, long-dormant elven magic to crash into her system, Brandi accidentally activates the fated mate bond with Elyais Jamison-the stone-cold, ruthless elven patriarch of the city's most powerful supernatural syndicate. Suddenly, her human nervous system is short-circuiting, and she is thrust directly into the crosshairs of an immortal corporate war.
To protect his global shipping empire from traditionalist board coups and rival vampire syndicates, Elyais forces Brandi into a tactical lockdown: a strict, fake-engagement contract and a massive, gaudy public wedding spectacle to prove she is untouchable.
But as explosive street ambushes and boardroom politics threaten to tear Manhattan apart, the physical tension behind closed doors reaches a sweltering boil. Pinned against the executive bookshelf, Brandi realizes her body is aggressively latching onto the electric warmth of his aura. Elyais has no intention of playing a part-he fully intends to claim, mark, and love her deeper than her human mind can comprehend.
With bloodthirsty predators closing in and her own biology threatening to betray her, Brandi must step into her full authority as a sovereign matriarch. Because in the game of immortal finance, the contract is officially dead... and there is absolutely no going back.