Controlling Interest

Simone Adair reads the fine print that ruins people, and she is very good at it. So when Ridgeway Partners sends her to hand Adrian Colvin the terms of his own surrender, she already knows every way the man is going to lose. She walks in to deliver a raider his execution and walks out with an offer instead: marry him before a date buried in his own charter, keep him in control of his firm, and get paid enough to erase a debt she has quietly carried since she was eleven.

It was supposed to be a contract. Fixed term. Exit clause. Nothing on paper that either of them could walk away from. The Street calls Adrian Colvin the Undertaker, for the dying companies he buys and guts, and he is exactly as cold as they say, right up until he is not. He offers a marriage because a transaction is the one thing a man like him cannot lose. Neither of them plans on the leak inside his own walls, or the investigator rebuilding the worst year of her childhood one filing at a time, or the way a fake marriage stops being fake somewhere around the third time you have to prove to a court that it is real.

And neither of them knows the thing she finds with the rest of the fine print: the man running the raid to take everything from them is the same one who took everything from her father twenty years ago. Preston Ridgeway built Adrian and then set out to swallow him whole, and he has never lost a fight he financed himself. But that is the flaw in a man who buys his victories on borrowed money. Every dollar of leverage is a lever, and Simone has spent her whole life learning how to pull them.

A standalone dark billionaire romance with a guaranteed happily-ever-after. For adult readers.