Claimed by the Heir: A Second Chance Billionaire Romance (The Langston Billionaires)

He was her first heartbreak. Now he's her boss.

When Mara Quinn walks into Langston Industries for her first day as lead architect, the last face she expects to see is Declan Langston — the boy who shattered her at nineteen and never looked back. He's colder now. Sharper. Wearing a three-piece suit like armor and wielding his empire like a weapon.

He doesn't apologize. He doesn't explain. He simply slides a contract across his mahogany desk and says, *sign it.*

She does. Because she needs this project. Because her career depends on it. Because she refuses to let him see that eight years haven't erased a single thing.

But Declan has always been impossible to ignore. His intensity follows her into every boardroom, every late night, every argument that crackles with something neither of them will name. He pushes. She pushes back harder. And somewhere between the blueprints and the battles, the walls they've both so carefully constructed begin showing cracks.

Declan Langston doesn't do second chances. He does *acquisitions.*

The question is whether Mara is willing to risk her heart on a man who already knows exactly how to break it — or whether some ruins aren't worth rebuilding.

*Claimed by the Heir* is a slow-burn, second-chance romance that proves the most dangerous thing about your enemy isn't the hate. It's the moment it stops feeling like hate at all.