Due Diligence

The acquisition was only the beginning.

Marcus Vane and Elise Hartwell built something no one expected to survive: a powerful new partnership born from revenge, old wounds, and a company that should have fallen apart. But now the real work begins.

A hidden document in the Hartwell archive changes everything.

What Elise finds does not just reopen the past. It reshapes it. The truth behind what happened to Marcus's family runs deeper than either of them knew, and every answer pulls them further into a history of money, influence, betrayal, and decisions that were buried for a reason.

Marcus has spent years building a correction for one wrong.

Elise is beginning to understand there may have been more than one.

As their business empire grows, so does the pressure around them. Investors circle. Old rivals test the structure they have built. Family truths rise to the surface. And the relationship between Marcus and Elise becomes harder to separate from the world they are trying to protect.

In a game where every document matters, every silence has a cost, and every secret can shift the balance of power, due diligence is no longer just business.

It is survival.

Due Diligence is Book Two in the Hostile Takeover series, a high-stakes billionaire romance filled with corporate power plays, romantic suspense, family secrets, emotional tension, slow-burn intimacy, and two powerful people building something neither of them can walk away from.