Mugambi

Grip A Flame

-"Forget me not."- Ellie Powell is a woman living in the shadows. For eighteen months, she has traded her academic brilliance for a waitress’s apron to escape the reach of her abusive ex-boyfriend, Jeffrey. Her life is a desperate math equation where every cent earned is funneled into the medical care of her terminally ill sister, Helene. When a high-paying job offer arrives from Hephastian Wellington, the cold, calculating CEO of Emerson Corporation, Ellie risks her invisibility for a chance at a cure. But the offer is a scorched-earth trap. In a room fueled by corporate malice, Ellie’s certifications are shredded, leaving her without a career—and without hope. Just as her world collapses, the man she fled in terror finds her. With Jeffrey closing in and her sister’s time running out, Hephastian returns with a second and more dangerous proposition: Two hundred thousand dollars in exchange for a signed contract, in which she must agree to be his. Now, Ellie stands at a lethal crossroads. Does she surrender her soul to a man who humiliated her, or fall back into the hands of the monster who nearly broke her? Ellie must decide if her sister’s survival is worth her own heart—or her very life.