Castello di Lusso

She refused to be a pawn. So they made her a queen.

After severing ties with the toxic corporate machine in Atlanta, Simone Bellamy has finally built a sanctuary of her own. Now the fiercely independent CEO of Bellamy Architecture, she travels to the glacial shores of Lake Como, Italy, to restore a magnificent seventeenth-century stone fortress as an exclusive luxury wellness retreat.

But the fifty-million-dollar commission is a Trojan horse.

The project's backing investor is the Thorne Development Group-a three-hundred-billion-dollar real-estate dynasty ruled by the ruthless Arthur Thorne. Arthur has not hired Simone only for her architectural brilliance. He intends to use her as leverage to force his estranged son, master craftsman Elias Thorne, back into the family empire he escaped.

When Arthur launches a devastating campaign of corporate sabotage, he assumes Simone will fold beneath the pressure of his wealth and influence. But Arthur has never fought a woman who cannot be bought.

With Elias beside her, Simone must use every ounce of her architectural genius to outmaneuver a billionaire, protect her masterpiece, and defend the independent life she fought to build. Against the breathtaking backdrop of Lake Como, she discovers that love does not have to demand surrender-and that true power is not inherited. It is built.

Castello di Lusso is a sophisticated contemporary romance about Black excellence, architecture, family power, hard-won sovereignty, and a woman determined to create luxury with a soul.