Sold To My Mother's Secret Lover For One Night

Elara Vale has one photograph. Her mother, pressed against a silver-haired man in a way that leaves nothing to imagination. The man is Edmund Ashworth. Billionaire. Art collector. And the reason her mother vanished twenty-two years ago. Tonight, Elara is Lot Thirty-One at his private charity auction. She's not here to be sold. She's here to find out what he did to Mara Vale. "One hundred thousand dollars." His voice doesn't waver. His eyes don't leave hers. He knows exactly who she is. "May I?" he asks, lifting the silk restraints in a private room. She says yes—because the answers she needs are somewhere in this house. Then Julian Mercer crashes through the door with a gun and a vendetta. He says Ashworth killed his father. He says Elara's mother is still alive. He tells her to run. But Elara doesn't run from men who keep secrets. She takes them apart.