The Contract: The Cavell Deal, Book One

THE CONTRACTThe Cavell Deal, Book OneShe built her name from nothing once already. She is not doing it the same way twice.Vivian Calder was the best crisis strategist in the city until a Cavell Global memo destroyed her career, her father's name, and every account she had left, in a single afternoon.

Four years later she walks out of a dead job interview and straight into Julian Cavell — the heir whose signature is on the document that ruined her, offering her the one thing she never expected from that family: the truth, and a contract to go with it.Julian does not want forgiveness. He wants Vivian back inside the machine that broke her, close enough to read what he cannot say out loud: that the leak destroying both their names is using the same playbook his family used on her four years ago, and he needs the one person who has already survived it once.What starts as a hostage exchange in a glass tower becomes something neither of them priced into the terms — a marriage of convenience that keeps working long after the convenience runs out, between a woman who has spent four years proving she cannot be managed and a man who signed away the right to be trusted the day he signed her name.

Every clause they write together gets them closer to the truth. It also gets harder to tell where the contract ends and the wanting begins.An enemies-to-lovers, marriage-of-convenience romance between a strategist who refuses to be handled and the heir who has to earn his way out of his own family's worst decision — the first book in a continuing series, complete with its own satisfying ending.This book is open-door and unapologetically spicy, alongside strong language and depictions of corporate and family power and coercion.

Intended for readers 18+.