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Thirty Seconds Up An Elevator Stranger Romance
Paperback
Publisher: Sankulahub
Published: Jan 15 2026
Pages: 426
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.95 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Thirty seconds. One elevator. A voice meant to break her. When Imogen's name is used as leverage, she and Reid must untangle a planted scandal and choose trust before the doors close for good.
Imogen is the kind of woman who survives by staying composed. She knows how to walk into polished buildings, deliver flawless work, and never let anyone see what it costs her to be taken seriously. Then, in the span of thirty seconds, her name is broadcast in the one place she cannot escape. A private violation becomes a public weapon, and suddenly the story of her life is being written by someone else.
Reid is not supposed to matter to her. He is the stranger who shared an elevator ride, the man whose calm made her feel seen at the exact moment she needed to feel invisible. He is also the man tied to a system that can make reputations vanish with a single whisper and a single signature. When a planted narrative starts tightening around Imogen's career, Reid becomes the most dangerous kind of person in her orbit, the one who could protect her, or the one who could destroy her without meaning to.
The pressure escalates quietly at first. A schedule that shouldn't exist. A message that feels too informed to be random. A request for a private resolution that sounds like professionalism until you understand what it's really asking her to surrender. The more Imogen fights for truth, the more the world around her tries to convince her that truth is a liability.
But Imogen is done being steered, and Reid is done confusing regret with repair. Together, they choose structure over impulse, record over rumor, and boundaries over the easy lie. What begins as a tense stranger encounter becomes something deeper, a slow-burn connection forged in the one place love is rarely allowed to grow: under scrutiny.
Thirty Seconds Up is a contemporary stranger romance with emotional suspense, corporate pressure, and a love story built on integrity. No grand rescues, no shortcuts, just two people refusing to let power decide who they are.
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