Robert Ashford has spent his entire life surrounded by people who know his name before he introduces himself.

His family built an empire that reaches from Chicago boardrooms to charity galas, and with that inheritance came money, influence and a peculiar problem: Robert can never be certain whether anyone wants the man or what standing beside an Ashford can give them.

The Labyrinth offers a solution. Amanda Claridge promises him an experience built around the one indulgence Robert rarely permits himself, a woman whose attention, admiration and devotion belong entirely to him for the hours he has purchased. Camille Bennett should have been perfect. Instead, she takes one look at the man everyone else rushes to please and decides that Robert Ashford could benefit from hearing the word no considerably more often.

He should request someone else. He books Camille again.

What begins as an expensive private indulgence becomes the only relationship in Robert’s life untouched by his family’s expectations, until a photograph connects him to The Labyrinth just as he is preparing to inherit everything generations of Ashfords built. Suddenly Camille is no longer private, Robert’s carefully managed reputation becomes a weapon, and the easiest way to protect his future is to deny that the woman he paid to admire him ever mattered at all.

Robert came to The Labyrinth because he wanted to be treated like a king. Camille may be the first woman who makes him decide what kind of man deserves the crown.

Releases October 27, 2026