Showing Dreams to Keep by Leigh Michaels

Chelsea Ryan badly wants a partnership in her architectural firm, and when it is awarded instead to Nick Stanton, she's determined not to make his new job easy for him. Nick wants Chelsea's cooperation – but not only at the drawing board. And he's prepared to stoop to blackmail to get what he wants.

This vintage romance novel was first published by Harlequin Mills & Boon in 1985 – an era when architects used mechanical pencils and electric erasers instead of computer-assisted-design software. The passage of time, changes in attitudes, and advances in technology have in some ways turned this book into a period piece – an accidental historical novel set in the 1980s.