THE DEVIL'S HEIR

He has done things. He keeps a precise accounting of each of them.
She is not in the accounting.
She has never been in the accounting.
And that distinction, Zavier Moncrieff is discovering, is the most dangerous thing he has ever encountered.
Zavier is the most powerful man in Chicago's financial underworld. Heir to a shadow empire built across three generations. A man who has spent twelve years being exact about everything: every cost, every consequence, every line he will not cross.
Celeste Avery is an art restitution attorney who has spent two years following a thread that leads directly to Zavier's firm. She walks into his building to fight for her brother. She does not walk in expecting to find the one man in his world who looks at her the way no one has ever looked at her: like she is the most specific thing in the room.
He was never supposed to want her. She belongs to a world his father wronged, which makes her forbidden by the only rule Zavier has held for eight years. But she sits across from him and refuses to look away. And he has been running the same risk assessment for four weeks and it keeps producing the same anomalous output.
Her.
He has done things. None of them to her. The distinction is the entire premise.
This is not a man who has decided to be better for her. This is a man who has been precise about what he is, honest about what it costs, and who has spent eight years quietly making returns to people his world took from without asking for credit or recognition. And when Celeste walks into his building, she becomes the one thing his twelve years of precision has no framework for.
She is not afraid of him. She has never been afraid of him. She understood, from the first meeting, that she was not in the category of people his danger pointed toward.
What she did not understand, until it was too late to manage, was that she was in a different category entirely.
His.
When a federal investigation connects Celeste's professional work to Zavier's past, both of them will have to decide what precision actually requires: the safety of distance, or the specific courage of choosing someone whose world will always be complicated and choosing them anyway.
For readers who want the moral complexity real. The possessiveness protective. The hero honest about his costs. The heroine nobody's exception until she is the only one.
The Devil's Heir is a full-length dark billionaire forbidden romance featuring a morally grey anti-hero with obsessive dual POV chapters, consent-forward possessive heat, a heroine who is the hero's equal in every room, and a happily ever after that is completely and entirely earned.
High heat. No non-consent. Standalone with no cliffhanger.
One white rose. Eleven years. One woman who is never in the accounting and is the whole of the one that matters.
Add to Cart. You will not put it down.

Jasmine Ashworth writes contemporary romance about ordinary people finding extraordinary love. A lifelong believer in second chances, grand gestures, and happily ever afters, she creates stories that blend emotional depth with swoon-worthy romance.
When she's not writing her next billionaire hero or dreaming up impossible-to-resist meet-cutes, Jasmine can be found buried in a good book, drinking too much coffee, and rewatching her favorite rom-coms for "research purposes."