The Lines We Cross: A Captivating Enemies-to-Lovers Contemporary Romance Novel

"I didn't bring you up here to play a game, Maya. I brought you up here because your passion is the only thing in this entire building that isn't for sale."Maya Vance (formerly boutique architect) looked at a city and saw a canvas for art. Julian Vance (the ruthless, youngest billionaire in real estate) looked at a city and saw a machine that needed to function for profit.When Julian's corporate empire liquidates her late father's boutique architectural firm, Maya prepares for war. She expects a soulless suit looking to bulldoze a legacy. Instead, she finds a formidable predator who moves her thirty-two floors up to his private executive suite, demanding she justify her brilliant, over-budget designs with hard structural mathematics in an impossible forty-eight-hour deadline.Forced into tight quarters, their public rivalry becomes a masterclass in corporate theater-sharp arguments, cold glares, and professional friction staged perfectly for the suspicious board of directors. But behind the frosted glass doors of the executive suite, the lines between corporate warfare and absolute surrender begin to incinerate.When a cutthroat board member stages a coup to seize the empire and bury Maya's vision, Julian risks his entire personal fortune to shield her. Standing in the ruins of their corporate lives, they must combine his clinical calculation with her artistic defiance to out-maneuver the sharks.The deadlines are lethal. The corporate fallout is everywhere. But in a game of pure capital, the most dangerous variable is the fire between them.The Takeover is a lengthy, standalone, high-stakes enemies-to-lovers corporate romance featuring a fiercely protective billionaire, scorching slow-burn tension, and a fierce heroine who refuses to break.

Pagina's: 132, Paperback, Independently published