The Price of His Silence: A Dark Billionaire Marriage-of-Convenience Romance

She built her career exposing powerful men. Now the most dangerous one wants her to become his wife. Investigative journalist Isla Hart is days away from a court order that could expose a confidential source and destroy the reporting career she fought to build. Every trail leads back to the Moreau dynasty - and to Lucien Moreau, the impeccably controlled billionaire heir whose family has spent generations turning reputation into an asset they can buy, defend, and weaponize. Lucien has a problem of his own. A board war is closing around him, and marriage gives him the voting position he needs to stop his family's empire from falling into hands tied to Project Janus. His proposal to Isla is brutally simple: a legal marriage protects them both. Publicly, they become the perfect power couple. Privately, they remain adversaries with rules sharp enough to draw blood. Then a staged honeymoon in Monaco turns real. Someone breaks into Isla's room for evidence, a hidden intelligence network begins predicting their choices, and attraction becomes the one risk neither of them can outsource. But the greatest betrayal comes from inside the marriage. Isla discovers Lucien used one of her unpublished leads to secure his own power - knowing exactly whose trust he was stealing. If Lucien wants a future with her, apology will not be enough. He will have to surrender the advantage he gained, testify against his own family, and prove that love is not another form of control. The Price of His Silence is Book 2 of The Sable Consortium, an interconnected dark billionaire romantic-suspense series. It features marriage of convenience, public-couple/private-enemies tension, a relentless investigative-journalist heroine, a morally gray billionaire hero, explicit consent, high-society intrigue, corporate conspiracy, and a complete romantic HEA.