HOSTILE

Twelve years of sleeping under her desk. Twelve years of being the only Korean American woman in every boardroom on the Eastern seaboard. Twelve years of being told she was too aggressive, then not aggressive enough.

Mira Park made partner. And forty-six minutes later, they handed her August Hale.

He's the founder of the fintech unicorn her client wants to dismantle. Billionaire. Brilliant. Dangerous in ways she didn't see coming. He should be a problem to solve, a deal to close, a man to outmaneuver across a conference table at two in the morning.

He is not supposed to look at her the way he does.

She is absolutely, categorically, professionally not supposed to want him back.

August Hale built NORTH Capital from nothing - eleven thousand dollars and twelve years of refusing to be small. He has rules. He has arrangements. He has never wanted a woman he couldn't walk away from.

Until the best closer in New York walks into his boardroom and tells him, without raising her voice, exactly how she's going to take apart everything he built.

Until she writes a contract - her terms, her red ink - and slides it back across the table.

He signs without negotiating a single comma.

Because the alternative is not having her at all.

The deal is hostile. The attraction is worse. Somewhere between sealed conference rooms, stolen hours in his Tribeca penthouse, and the moment the truth gets out - and it will get out - one of them will have to choose between everything they built and the person they didn't mean to need.

She is the only person who has ever told him no.

He is the only person who has ever made her want to break a rule.

They were both lying to themselves.

HOSTILE is a steamy standalone enemies-to-lovers billionaire romance. Dual POV. Forced proximity. Forbidden workplace tension. A career-driven AAPI heroine who doesn't play second to anyone. A he-falls-first hero who discovers the only thing more dangerous than losing a deal is losing her. She writes the contract. He signs it. HEA guaranteed. Strong language and extremely explicit scenes - 18+ only.

For fans of Lauren Asher, Ana Huang, Tessa Bailey, and Helen Hoang.

Tropes: enemies to lovers · forced proximity · forbidden workplace · billionaire hero · career-driven heroine · he falls first · she writes the contract · possessive without controlling · AAPI heroine · dual POV · standalone HEA