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The Daughter's Defiance: A Slow Burn Billionaire Romance of Architectural Secrets, Family Legacy, and Quiet Defiance
Paperback
Series: Ivory Tower, Book 3
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 8 2026
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
She was the daughter who protected the building. He was the man who saw what even she had missed.
Cecily Whitmore knows the building better than anyone.
As the daughter of one of New York's most powerful old-money families and the woman responsible for the Whitmore Foundation for Architectural Conservation, she has spent years preserving the structure, the archive, and the legacy everyone else thinks they understand.
She does not need rescuing.
She does not need correcting.
And she certainly does not need Daniel Ashworth.
Daniel is a structural engineer with no interest in performance, wealth, or family mythology. He reads buildings the way other people read confessions: carefully, directly, and without flattery. When he is hired to assess the Whitmore conservatory, he finds more than structural stress.
He finds a hidden archival strand.
Forty-three letters. A suppressed argument. A secret about the building's original design that may change everything Cecily thought she was protecting.
As the investigation deepens, so does the tension between them. Cecily is used to controlling every room she enters. Daniel is the first man who does not try to break through her walls. He simply notices where they are load-bearing.
But some structures are not broken.
Some are waiting for the right person to understand how they hold.
The Daughter's Defiance is Book Three in the Ivory Tower series, a slow burn billionaire romance with architectural secrets, old-money family legacy, emotional restraint, and a love story built on trust, precision, and quiet rebellion.
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