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The design flaw

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Elena Cross is a machine of cold precision. A top-tier architect from the East Coast, she rebuilt her life from the wreckage of a seven-year betrayal using nothing but logic and steel. She doesn't do "feelings," and she certainly doesn't do "distractions." When she’s hired to fix a crumbling multi-million dollar development in Malibu, she expects a structural challenge. She doesn't expect the chaos that comes in a designer wrap. Anastasia Wellington is the heiress with a reputation for being a beautiful disaster. To her corporate family, she is the "design flaw" in their perfect lineage—a brilliant engineer who would rather gallivant through the hills than sign a site log. She’s used to being the smartest person in the room and the most underestimated. When a critical error on the site traps them together in the suffocating heat of a construction trailer, the friction is instantaneous. To Elena, Anastasia is a spoiled liability. To Anastasia, Elena is a starched-collar interloper. But as the sun sets over the Pacific and the blueprints begin to blur, they discover a truth more dangerous than any seismic shift: The most unstable ground isn't beneath the building—it's between them. In a world where one wrong calculation can bring everything crashing down, they are about to learn that the most beautiful structures are often found in the flaws.
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