Tempting

When the offer came through, it felt like my only way out. My accounts were empty. My mother’s control was suffocating me. I needed money, I needed distance, and I needed it fast. So I traded my vibrant city life for a secluded estate in the middle of nowhere, taking a job beneath my skill level because the paycheck was too massive to refuse.


What I didn't expect was the silence.


Weeks alone in a sprawling mansion where the staff barely speaks, and my boss—notorious billionaire Spencer Blackstone—is nothing more than a ghost. No appearances. No explanation. Just a heavy, unsettling stillness that made me wonder if taking the money was a mistake.


Until the night he finally appeared.


One look, and the air between us caught fire.


Spencer is guarded, intense, and completely intoxicating—a man hiding behind walls I can't see through. I don't know where he disappears to all day, or why his presence in the dark feels just as dangerous as it does addictive. All I know is that every touch strips away my defenses, pulling me deeper into a web of secrets I wasn't meant to uncover.


If you took a fortune to vanish into a billionaire’s world, only to realize he’s hiding something dark behind closed doors, would you walk away?


I couldn't.



Tempting is the first novel in The Ruthless Billionaire trilogy, part of The Blackstones Series by Z.L. Arkadie—a suspenseful billionaire romance packed with forced proximity, forbidden attraction, and dark family secrets.