THE THRESHOLD

Tommy Nash builds glass towers by clearing away the old. It made him one of the wealthiest men in Britain, and it cost him the one house he never should have sold: 11 Alder Row, where he was born, and the mother he moved out of it twenty years ago, for her own good, until she stopped speaking to him.

He buys the house back. He does not tell the locksmith living in it who he used to be.

Nell Ashby has kept 11 Alder Row exactly as her late grandmother left it - the same chair, the same mug, the door propped open for a mother who walked out when Nell was seven and never came home. She cuts keys for the whole dead street Nash's own company is about to demolish. She is not impressed by the man in the expensive coat who keeps finding reasons to come back, and she does not let him past the hall.

Then the kitchen. Then the stairs. He earns every room the way he's never earned anything else - by sitting still and paying for nothing. Somewhere between the barrel she changes and the key she finally cuts him, two people who've spent years keeping watch over houses for mothers who won't come home start wondering if they're allowed to stop.

Until Nell finds the paperwork that says her street was scheduled for demolition before Nash ever knocked on her door - and she has to decide whether she was ever anything to him but a site waiting to be cleared.

THE THRESHOLD is a slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers billionaire romance about the cost of coming home. Book 3 in LONDON BILLIONAIRES - a new couple, a full happy-ever-after, and a story that stands complete on its own.