Hostile Takeover

Briar Hale came back to Black Cedar Lodge to cast a vote and leave. Estranged from her four fiercely protective half-brothers, she owns thirty percent of the mountain property and wants out. But the man sitting next to her at Sunday dinner has other plans.

Decker Vance is a New York takeover specialist who always leaves a room with what he came for. He's at Black Cedar for a multi-million dollar acquisition, but his eyes are fixed solely on Briar. Decker doesn't just want the lodge. He wants her absolute surrender. He's possessive, commanding, and offers her a terrifyingly seductive proposition: yield to him behind closed doors, and he will give her back the power her family stripped away. But as Decker systematically breaks down Briar's walls with unapologetic devotion, she realizes the corporate raider isn't trying to tear her family apart-he's the only man strong enough to put it back together.