THE SOVEREIGN ARCHITECT Buildings are honest. People are a lie. Roxanne Sterling was the rising star of Manhattan's architectural elite until a catastrophic structural failure—and a calculated betrayal—turned her name into a synonym for disaster. Blacklisted and broken, she has one chance to reclaim her legacy: an anonymous commission to redesign the New York Waterfront, the most ambitious project in a century. But her client is the one man more dangerous than her past. Julian Thorne is a Titan of Industry, a man who doesn't believe in luck, only in logic and leverage. He doesn't just want Roxanne's brilliance; he wants her total, unvarnished submission. In the glass-and-steel cathedral of Thorne Dynamics, Julian offers Roxanne a contract: he will restore her name, but in return, he will own every line she draws, every breath she takes, and every secret she keeps. As the Waterfront Project rises from the riverbank, so does a feverish, high-stakes obsession. Caught in a "War Room" of corporate espionage, federal inquiries, and a rival CEO determined to see them both burn, Roxanne discovers that Julian's "protection" is a gilded cage—and that the only thing more terrifying than his cruelty is her own desire for it.