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

He built the key that could switch off any life on earth. She built the one freedom it could never reach. In forty hours, cash dies everywhere on earth. Daniel Osei is the architect of the Solidus - the programmable money that replaces it, ending theft, ending fraud, ending the soft-voiced men who once made his father's life disappear. He believes money must finally answer to someone. He does not yet know that a hidden key buried inside his own creation can switch off any person - or any nation - with a single keystroke. Mira Sevran has spent eleven years as a ghost, building untraceable escape hatches for people a state decided should not exist - because she once watched a nine-year-old be switched off until he was simply gone. She has the proof that the new money is a cage with one master key. And she has nowhere to take it, because the press, the courts, and the regulators all answer to the people who built it. She needs the architect. He needs the ghost. Neither can trust the other an inch - and as a countdown runs toward the moment the key is born into a single fist, they find they share the same wound and opposite cures. To stop it, they will have to give the most powerful thing ever built to everyone alive... and keep only the one thing neither will ever surrender. Every standard comes down to who holds the key - and the only question is whether you keep it for yourself, or give it away. THE STANDARD is the fifth book in the Hard Currency series - a high-stakes, slow-burn enemies-to-lovers romance of digital money, a master key, and a reckoning that belongs to everyone. Each book is a complete, standalone love story with its own happily-ever-after.

Pages: 119, Paperback, Independently published