The Strategist

He underestimated her once. He will spend the rest of his life making up for it. Josie Lattimore built the pricing strategy that's keeping Voss Group afloat. Her CEO just presented it to the board as his own idea. Again. She stays out of loyalty to the man who first believed in her, the founder who mentored her before his son inherited the company and everything it stood for. But loyalty has a shelf life, and Josie is running out of patience for being brilliant in rooms that refuse to see her. Everett Sterling runs a hospitality empire considerably larger than the one trying to poach his attention. He assumes the mastermind behind Voss Group's winning strategy is the polished CEO across the negotiating table. He is wrong, and the moment he realizes exactly how wrong, he cannot look away from the woman he almost missed entirely. What starts as a business rivalry becomes something neither of them expected: a partnership built on honesty, respect, and the radical idea that credit should go to whoever actually earned it. Some men inherit an empire. She built her own reputation from nothing, one stolen idea at a time, and now she is done letting anyone else take the bow.