THE ACQUISITION CLAUSE

Elena Voss is fighting to save her father's hotel empire from bankruptcy - and from Damian Cross, the billionaire acquirer who once humiliated her in front of a room full of investors and doesn't even remember doing it. When the board forces a merger to save the company, Elena has no choice but to work side by side with the man she's spent five years despising. Then Damian proposes something worse: a fake ninety-day relationship, played out for the press and investors, to stop a rival predator from tearing the deal - and the company - apart. It's supposed to be strategy. Nothing more. But forced proximity has a way of cracking even the best-built walls, and the more Elena sees of the real Damian - the one who reads her father's business philosophy line by line, who chooses the truth when a lie would be easier - the harder it becomes to remember which parts of them were ever pretend. When a rival's sabotage threatens everything, Elena and Damian have to decide what's worth protecting: the company, the truth, or each other - before the ninety days run out and someone else writes the ending for them. A slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers billionaire romance about power, trust, and the fine print nobody thinks to read until it's too late.