Delayed Echo

She has rules. He has patience. Neither of them planned for friendship to become the most dangerous thing in the room.Katya Mullova-Barley has built a life around being in control. She owns a successful PR agency, knows exactly what she wants, and has zero interest in handing anyone enough power to hurt her again. Especially not Adam Chaikowski.Adam is infuriatingly calm, quietly brilliant, and far too good at seeing through her. A tech entrepreneur with scars of his own, he isn't looking for complications either. And Katya? She practically comes with a warning label.They clash. They argue. They become friends.That should have been the end of it.Instead, somewhere between London chaos, late-night conversations, terrible timing, unexpected tenderness, and a journey that takes them from England to the heat of Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, the line between friendship and something far more dangerous begins to disappear.Because Adam doesn't want to rescue Katya. He doesn't want to fix her. He simply stays.And for a woman who has spent years making sure nobody gets close enough to leave an echo, that might be the most terrifying thing of all.Funny, sharp, emotional and deliciously slow-burning, Delayed Echo is a friends-to-lovers romantic comedy about two guarded people, one spectacularly inconvenient attraction, and the terrifying possibility that sometimes the right person doesn't arrive with fireworks. Sometimes, they simply refuse to disappear.Perfect for readers who love slow burn, enemies-to-friends-to-lovers, witty banter, found family, emotionally intelligent heroes, complicated heroines, scorching chemistry, and romance with both heart and bite.Delayed Echo is Book Two in the Hard n' Heavy series and can be enjoyed as a standalone.