The Acquisition: A High-Heat Billionaire Romance Novella

***OPEN DOOR HIGH HEAT 5/5 SPICE*** >If you prefer serious, ultra-poetic boardroom romances or conventional bedroom metaphors, this will test your patience. If you like your romance completely unbothered, laugh-out-loud chaotic, and deeply distracting-welcome to the mess. She needed a scandal to burn her family's empire. She picked the one man capable of burning her. Chloe Vance has until midnight to ruin her family's immaculate portfolio. With her mother threatening to auction her off to the highest corporate bidder by the morning board meeting, her options are running out. She can submit to a bloodless arranged marriage to patch her father's margins, or she can detonate a scandal so lethal they'll be scrubbing soot out of their boardrooms for decades. Enter Julian Corvus. Ruthless, arrogant, and devastatingly bored, the crown prince of Corvus Capital is the apex predator circling her family's firm. He was never supposed to be a savior. He was supposed to be a combustible weapon-a one-night match struck in the dark to burn her parents' leveraged lives to ash. All she has to do is bait the trap, lure him away from the gala, and survive until morning. Except Julian doesn't play the fool, and he certainly doesn't negotiate. The moment the penthouse door locks behind them, Chloe realizes the terrifying reality of playing with fire: you don't strike matches over open gasoline unless you're prepared to burn with it.