In the glittering heart of Manhattan, where the skyline cuts into the clouds and power hums beneath every surface, Lena Carter steps into a world built on wealth, ambition, and control. As one of the city’s rising interior designers, she has learned to protect herself from everything—disappointment, desire, and especially the kind of man who can turn a life upside down with a single look. She rebuilt herself once. She won’t do it again. But nothing in her carefully constructed world prepares her for Elliot Sinclair. Heir to a vast business empire and owner of the penthouse she’s been hired to redesign, Elliot is a man carved from restraint and precision. Cold to the outside world yet silently unraveling beneath the weight of his inheritance, he has no patience for chaos, unpredictability, or emotional entanglement. His life is a fortress of glass and steel—untouchable, impenetrable, and perfectly controlled. Until Lena walks in. From their first encounter, the air between them vibrates with something unspoken, a magnetic pull neither expected and neither knows how to resist. Lena challenges him with her independence, her honesty, and the quiet fire in her eyes. Elliot disarms her with his intensity, his sincerity, and the rare moments of vulnerability she isn’t supposed to see. What begins as a professional collaboration becomes a slow-burning collision—one that threatens every boundary they both swore to keep. As Lena transforms his penthouse, she begins to uncover the fractures beneath Elliot’s polished surface: the family tensions he hides, the loneliness he masks with power, and the tenderness he doesn’t know how to express. And without meaning to, Elliot becomes the one person who sees Lena clearly—past her strength, past her defenses, straight into the heart she’s tried so hard to protect. But in a world ruled by expectations, envy, and old wounds, desire is never simple. Lena’s past resurfaces at the worst possible moment, threatening the fragile trust growing between them. Elliot’s responsibilities pull him into shadows she cannot reach. Jealous rivals, manipulative family members, and the ghosts of former loves press in from all sides, testing them in ways neither anticipated. As their connection deepens—dangerous, tender, and impossible to ignore—both must confront the truths they fear most. Lena must decide if risking her heart again is a mistake she can survive. Elliot must determine whether love is a weakness that could destroy him… or the only thing strong enough to save him from himself. Caught between longing and fear, passion and restraint, power and vulnerability, Lena and Elliot stand at the edge of something neither of them can name. The higher their desire climbs, the greater the fall that waits below. The Height of Wanting is a story about two souls learning that love is not found in perfection, but in the courage to be seen, the willingness to be known, and the breathtaking risk of wanting someone more than you ever planned.