Never Take Elevator Nine

"The cruelest prisons are the ones with beautiful views and unlocked doors that you choose never to open."

Imogen Price is a structural security engineer who breaks into buildings for a living. Hired to audit the state-of-the-art Nightglass Tower, she expects a routine job finding digital vulnerabilities and physical blind spots. But when she receives a series of anonymous, untraceable messages warning her to "Never take elevator nine," her professional curiosity overrides her caution.

The elevator doesn't just go to a restricted floor. It goes to a hidden, unmapped penthouse that doesn't exist on any blueprint.

Waiting inside is Callum Vey, the brilliant, obsessive architect and secret owner of the building. Callum hasn't just built a skyscraper; he has built a high-tech fortress designed entirely around his need for absolute control. And he has been studying Imogen for fourteen months. From the exact firmness of her mattress to her preferred brand of drafting pencils, he has engineered a luxurious cage specifically tailored to her every preference.

When a dangerous saboteur breaches the building's digital infrastructure, Callum triggers a lockdown, trapping Imogen on his restricted floor. He claims it is the only way to keep her safe. But as Imogen peels back the hidden layers of the tower's walls, she uncovers a devastating conspiracy linking her own father's disgraced past to a tragic fire that killed Callum's mother years ago.

Caught in a tense battle of wits with a man who communicates his dark devotion through architecture and surveillance, Imogen must use all her expertise to dismantle the tower's compromised systems. But the most dangerous threat isn't the saboteur lurking in the sublevels. It's the creeping realization that she might not want to leave her beautiful, unlocked cage. 

Never Take Elevator Nine is a dark, psychological suspense romance. Please note: This book contains themes of psychological manipulation, stalking, dubious consent dynamics, and captivity. The MMC is a morally grey, obsessive hero. Reader discretion is advised.