Built to Last

An MM Contemporary Romance
by Jace Wilder

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Pairing: M/M
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Inferno
Tropes: Praise Kink, Size Difference, Workplace Romance, Construction Romance, Blue Collar, Opposites Attract, Slow Burn, Grumpy/Sunshine (Inverted), Touch Starved, D/s Dynamic, Secret Relationship, He Falls First, Competence Kink, Class Difference, Caretaking, Suit Kink, Hurt/Comfort, Protector Romance, Found Family, Control/Surrender

He designed the building. The contractor designed him.

Theo Ashford is twenty-eight, brilliant, and one panic attack away from losing everything. As the youngest architect to ever lead a project at his white-shoe firm, he’s staked his entire career on Meridian Tower — a forty-million-dollar mixed-use building that needs to be perfect because Theo needs to be perfect, because if he stops being perfect for one second, the imposter syndrome will swallow him whole.

Then he meets the site manager.

Callum “Cal” Briggs is six-four, built like a load-bearing wall, and handles multi-million-dollar construction projects with the same unshakeable calm he uses to handle everything — including the tightly wound architect who keeps showing up on his site in tailored suits and ruined shoes, clutching his tablet like a shield and vibrating with anxiety.

The first time Theo has a panic attack in the job trailer, Cal pins him to the wall by his shoulders and tells him to breathe. The words that follow — good boy — rewire something in Theo’s nervous system that no amount of therapy has touched.

What starts as grounding becomes gravitational. Theo keeps coming to the site. Cal keeps catching him. The praise becomes a language. The touches become a map. And the drafting table in the construction trailer becomes the scene of something that is absolutely, catastrophically, career-endingly unprofessional.

On-site: professional. Off-site: everything.

But Cal is hiding something — a financial crisis that could destroy his company, his father’s legacy, and the building they’re constructing together. And Theo, who reads geotech reports for fun and finds structural errors at midnight, is exactly the kind of person who will discover the lie. The question isn’t whether the truth comes out. It’s whether the foundation they’ve built can survive the crack.

Built to Last is a 110,000-word high-heat MM contemporary romance featuring an anxious architect who’s never let anyone hold him up, a contractor whose calm exterior hides a man terrified of failing his father’s name, a construction site where the tension could melt steel, an elevator shaft encounter that readers will dog-ear, a bathtub scene that will destroy you, a proposal delivered on a blueprint, and a guaranteed happily ever after built on earned trust, shared weight, and the revolutionary structural principle that the strongest buildings aren’t the ones that never crack — they’re the ones with someone to hold them up when they do.

⚠️ Content Notes

This book contains explicit sexual content including: MM scenes, praise kink, D/s dynamics, oral sex, penetrative sex, size difference emphasis, construction-site sex, elevator shaft encounter, caretaking/bathing scene, first-time bottoming, against-the-glass sex, power exchange, edging, and intense emotional vulnerability during sex. Also includes: panic attacks (depicted on-page), anxiety disorder, class-based discrimination, parental decline (stroke/memory care), financial crisis, professional boundary crossing (architect/contractor), and a relationship built under professional secrecy. All content is between consenting adults. Guaranteed HEA.

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