My Heart Blooms

Dahlia Thorne has never needed anyone to validate who she is. She is caramel skin and orange hair and a creative mind that never stops moving a fashion designer with her own boutique, a reputation that turns heads in every room she enters, and a passion for themed designs that has taken her work to an entirely new level.What she doesn’t advertise is the other side of herself. The exotic pieces she makes for no one but her own reflection. The desires she has always known were there, vivid, and unapologetic, that her on-again, off-again boyfriend of five years could never understand and ultimately couldn’t face. When he walked out after catching a glimpse of the real Dahlia, she made herself a promise: she would stop making herself smaller for people who couldn’t hold her whole.Julian Advent built his wealth quietly properties, investments, patience and built the Desired Den loudly: a prestigious, discreet alternative club where people who live the life can simply live it. No judgment. No explanations. Just the freedom of being exactly who you are. Julian has everything he set out to build. The one thing he hasn’t found is a woman who wants all of him.When Dahlia walks into the Desired Den on a business invitation and Julian watches her from across the room sketching on a cocktail napkin, orange hair catching the amber light, something shifts in him that patience alone cannot settle.She came to pitch a collection. He has been waiting for her longer than she knows.Two people. Two private lives. One room where neither of them has to pretend.She built her empire stitch by stitch. She kept her desires under lock and key. Then the wrong man saw the real her and walked away. Now the right one is watching.What happens when the woman who designs desire finally meets the man built to deliver it?