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The Carry: A High-Stakes Enemies-to-Lovers Romance
Paperback
Series: Hard Currency, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 18 2026
Pages: 222
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Some positions you hold no matter what they cost.
Hardin Vale built an empire on a single, ruthless skill: seeing the truth a market is too frightened or too hopeful to see. Fifteen years ago, he decided a heart was a flaw in the system and cut his out. He has never lost.
Now he holds the largest short on the Street against the mara - the currency of a small nation fighting to survive - and he is, as always, right.
Naima Diané is the only person alive who can stop him.
The architect of the currency's defense, she is the best in the world at reading the thing under the thing, and she has spent her whole career proving that conviction beats arithmetic - that hope is a reserve you can't see on a screen and can't short.
She is betting her country, her mentor's trust, and everything she has on being right where Hardin is wrong.
They were never supposed to meet.
A storm in the Alps and a shut-down funicular put them in the same room with no names - and what begins as one stolen, impossible hour becomes a love affair conducted across a wall neither of them is allowed to cross.
Never the trade.
Never a number.
Just one room.
The wall was always going to fail.
When it does, it costs them both more than money: a leaked secret, a ruined name, a country in free fall, and a single act of sacrifice so expensive that no model has a row for it.
To get back to each other, two people who armored themselves against ever being ruined will have to do the one thing they swore they never would again - hold a position with no guaranteed payoff, and pay the carry, gladly, for the rest of their lives.
THE CARRY is Book One in the Hard Currency series - a serious, emotionally intense, slow-burn enemies-to-lovers romance for readers who want their love stories with real stakes, real damage, and a hard-won, heart-in-your-throat happily ever after.
Readers who love this book are here for:
Enemies to lovers - literally on opposite sides of the same trade
Two guarded, emotionally damaged leads who meet their match
A snowed-in, no-names first meeting and a forbidden, can't-stop affair
A ticking-clock plot where the stakes are a country, two careers, and forty million lives
Real heartbreak, a true black moment, and earned forgiveness
A grand gesture that actually costs the hero everything he has
A guaranteed, deeply satisfying happily ever after
A heroine who is the smartest person in every room - and a hero who loves her for it
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