Bound by Ink

Her family’s shipyard is going to auction. The man who buys it is her dead brother’s best friend, and the one man she was told to stay away from.

Calla Marchand has one rule left: never ask a Castellan for anything.

Her family built ships in Port Calloway for four generations. Now the yard is bankrupt and the auction block is set. Her father is gone. Her brother Julian is dead. And the only bidder with the money to save the Marchand name is Thane Castellan, the cold, controlled billionaire who has spent eleven years refusing to look at her.

Thane doesn’t bid on the yard. He bids on the debt, and then he names his price.

One year. Her name on his contract. Her place in his house, at his table, and in his bed.

Every term is negotiated and every limit is in writing. Calla gets a safeword and the right to walk away. He gets her obedience when she chooses to give it, and he’s relentless about making her want to.

But Thane watches her like a man who has wanted something for far too long. He says mine in a voice that makes her knees give. And Calla is learning that surrender can feel like power, and that the contract was never really about the money.

She was supposed to hate him. Julian made Thane promise to keep away from his little sister.

Thane broke that promise the moment he signed.

Collateral is a standalone billionaire contract romance with a guaranteed HEA, no cliffhanger.

Tropes: Billionaire Hero • Debt Bargain / Bought Heroine • Forbidden (Best Friend’s Sister) • Contract Marriage Arrangement • Possessive Alpha • Power Exchange

18+ only. Contains explicit sexual content, dominant/submissive dynamics (fully consensual and negotiated), and themes of grief.