The Master Spring
He controls time to the microsecond. She's the one variable he can't predict.
Sebastian Verrill, the reclusive heart of the Verrill watchmaking empire, lives by precision and silence. Obsessed with finishing his father's final masterpiece, the Verrill Celestia, he has shut himself away from the world in his fortress-like Geneva atelier—until Iris Delaney picks the lock to his sanctuary. To Sebastian, the outside world is noise to be filtered out; to Iris, he is the biggest PR disaster of her career.
Hired to rehabilitate the brand’s image, Iris is a whirlwind of color, noise, and modern strategy. When a catastrophic Alpine blizzard triggers an automated security lockdown, the two are forced into seventy-two hours of claustrophobic proximity. As Iris watches Sebastian work, she becomes fascinated by his focus and the pain hiding behind his stoicism, while Sebastian realizes her 'chaos' is a different kind of precision that might be exactly what he needs.
But as the lockdown lifts, corporate betrayal and family secrets threaten to tear the Verrill legacy apart at the auction block in New York. Amidst high-stakes sabotage and the ticking of a billion-dollar clock, Iris and Sebastian must decide if their connection is a temporary glitch in the mechanism or a timeless bond worth spending every second to protect.
The Blurb
Sebastian Verrill, the reclusive heart of the Verrill watchmaking empire, lives by precision and silence. Obsessed with finishing his father's final masterpiece, the Verrill Celestia, he has shut himself away from the world in his fortress-like Geneva atelier—until Iris Delaney picks the lock to his sanctuary. To Sebastian, the outside world is noise to be filtered out; to Iris, he is the biggest PR disaster of her career.
Hired to rehabilitate the brand’s image, Iris is a whirlwind of color, noise, and modern strategy. When a catastrophic Alpine blizzard triggers an automated security lockdown, the two are forced into seventy-two hours of claustrophobic proximity. As Iris watches Sebastian work, she becomes fascinated by his focus and the pain hiding behind his stoicism, while Sebastian realizes her 'chaos' is a different kind of precision that might be exactly what he needs.
But as the lockdown lifts, corporate betrayal and family secrets threaten to tear the Verrill legacy apart at the auction block in New York. Amidst high-stakes sabotage and the ticking of a billion-dollar clock, Iris and Sebastian must decide if their connection is a temporary glitch in the mechanism or a timeless bond worth spending every second to protect.
"The tension in that workshop was so thick you could cut it with a watchmaker's lathe! Sebastian is the ultimate brooding genius, and I loved seeing Iris's 'chaos' slowly dismantle his walls. Pure competence porn with a side of high-stakes luxury—I couldn't put it down."— BookishBoutique