THE MERGER

Sloane Ferris has one rule: never mix business with anything that feels good. At twenty-four, she's rebuilding her late mother's failing design firm from the wreckage of debt, staff cuts, and a bank that's circling like it already smells blood. When Weston Vale — forty-five, ruthless, and the only man with enough capital to save her company — offers a buyout, she expects paperwork. She doesn't expect the clause buried on page twelve: for the length of the contract, she works for him, reports to him, and lives under his roof. Full access. No exceptions.
Weston doesn't do soft. He built an empire by taking what other men were too careful to touch, and he's spent twenty years telling himself a woman half his age is a line he'd never cross. Then Sloane walks into his boardroom, spine straight and voice steady even as her hands shake, and every rule he's ever set for himself starts to look negotiable.
She tells herself it's temporary. He tells himself it's business. Neither of them believes it by the second week.
But Weston doesn't share, and he doesn't let go — and when the contract's real price becomes impossible to ignore, Sloane has to decide whether surviving him was ever the same thing as escaping him. And whether the man who owns her company might already own far more than that.
The Merger is a standalone age-gap, possessive-alpha romance featuring a ruthless older hero, a fiercely independent heroine, a binding contract neither of them can walk away from, and an ending they both fight for. No cheating, no cliffhanger — just a hard-won happily ever after.
Contains explicit sexual content and is intended for readers 18 and older.
Tropes: Age-Gap, Possessive Alpha, Contract Romance, Forced Proximity, Workplace Power Dynamic, Secret Pregnancy