THE RESERVE: A High-Stakes Enemies-to-Lovers Romance

She is the steadiest hand in the history of money. He would abolish the single hand forever - starting with hers.Helena Sterling is the Custodian of the world's Reserve - keeper of the deep asset beneath every currency, bank, and rail. She was young when she watched a reserve collapse because no one stood under it, and she swore there would always be a hand behind the money. Hers. She does not yet know that the foundation she has guarded her whole life has a door in it - built before she arrived, by the one man she trusts most.Mateo Reeve is the architect of the mutual reserve - a floor held by everyone and no one, seizable by no single hand. He has weeks to finish before the global switchover welds the single one shut forever. Then a tremor moves in the bedrock that should be impossible, and only the Custodian and the rogue, together, can see whose hand is in the floor of the world.Enemies with the same wound and opposite cures, they uncover a decade of catastrophes that was one patient war - waged by the most trusted man alive to exhaust the world into begging a single custodian to hold everything. The only way to win is to give the world a floor that needs no single hand, and the hardest currency neither has ever spent: the trust they have each kept, all their lives, in the deepest reserve of all.The finale of the Hard Currency series. Reads as a standalone enemies-to-lovers romance; pays off seven books for the series reader.