Hostile Merger

Four weeks. One tiny apartment. Two rival consultants who are about to cross every professional line.

Dominic Vale is a ruthlessly effective crisis consultant who rebuilt his life on absolute control and a strict professional perimeter. When he is dispatched to Austin to dismantle a failing tech startup, he expects standard emergency protocols. He doesn't expect Reed Calloway—a brilliant, fast-talking independent strategist hired by a competing investor who has a dangerous habit of pushing past every boundary Dominic constructs.

Forced to share a sweltering, one-bedroom corporate Airbnb and collaborate on a restructuring plan with two hundred jobs on the line, their professional rivalry sparks into a devastating physical attraction. Dominic's investor wants the company stripped and sold for parts; Reed wants to save it. As late nights over spreadsheets turn into frantic encounters in the kitchen and on the conference room table, Dominic is forced to choose between the career he salvaged from the wreckage of his past and the man who is actively tearing down his walls.