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Ruled by Rivalry by Selina Mae (Ashwood Anthology #1)
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The Ashwood Empire: Rivalry, Luxury, Glamour — and a whole lot of Tension.
Straight out of Hall Beck University, Maeve Peterson lands an internship at Adeline Ashwood – the biggest luxury empire in the world – and suddenly her dream of working in fashion seems closer than ever. Maeve has always dreamed of working in fashion, and through sheer determination and a routine she barely derives from, everything always works out for Maeve. Perfectly.
Until she walks into the Ashwood offices and realizes there’s a difference between college life and the real world–and that she seems to thrive less in the latter. Especially when Elliot Ashwood gets involved: youngest heir of the Ashwood empire and her new colleague. But their rivalry becomes hard to maintain when she continues finding him in disarmingly intimate situations in their shared apartment.
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The Ashwood Empire: Rivalry, Luxury, Glamour — and a whole lot of Tension.
Straight out of Hall Beck University, Maeve Peterson lands an internship at Adeline Ashwood – the biggest luxury empire in the world – and suddenly her dream of working in fashion seems closer than ever. Maeve has always dreamed of working in fashion, and through sheer determination and a routine she barely derives from, everything always works out for Maeve. Perfectly.
Until she walks into the Ashwood offices and realizes there’s a difference between college life and the real world–and that she seems to thrive less in the latter. Especially when Elliot Ashwood gets involved: youngest heir of the Ashwood empire and her new colleague. But their rivalry becomes hard to maintain when she continues finding him in disarmingly intimate situations in their shared apartment.
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Selina Mae is a writer of romance and reader of (you guessed it!) romance and has been compensating her lack of meet-cutes by writing them into her rom-coms. When she’s not writing, you will find her rereading her comfort books or crying at happy endings.
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Release Date: September 1, 2026
Length: 448 pages
ISBN13: 9798893312270
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Disclaimer: The content warning includes spoilers for the entire book.
This book contains potentially triggering content. This includes:
Mention of death in the family (past)Difficult family circumstances
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The Ashwood Empire: Rivalry, Luxury, Glamour — and a whole lot of Tension
If there's one thing everyone knows about the Auclairs and the Ashwoods, it's that they are sworn enemies. So when Tate Auclair's father decides he wants to bring the Ashwoods' luxury brand back into their family's exclusive department store — and needs her help to do it — she couldn't be more surprised. She has been fighting for her father's approval since childhood, and there is nothing she wouldn't do for him — even if that means wrapping Rowen Ashwood, one of the wealthy heirs, around her finger. But to earn his trust, she must get as close to him as possible — closer than is good for her own heart. Because there is only one thing her father would never forgive her for: falling in love with an Ashwood.
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