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Ruthless by Design
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Publisher: Eight Publishing
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
She built her empire from nothing. So did he. Now the board has merged them - and the most dangerous deal Vivian Cross has ever signed isn't in the contract.
When a hostile merger forces Vivian Cross, CEO of Cross Capital, and Ethan Voss, the empire's dark architect, to share a boardroom and a building, professional distance becomes the only rule either of them agrees on.
It is also the first rule they break.
Ethan is hiding something about her late father's firm - a secret buried in the files of the merged archive that connects their families in ways neither of them planned for. Vivian is investigating a name that keeps appearing at the edges of every document she touches. Silas Drake. No one can tell her who he is. No one seems to know.
Twenty-two weeks. One building. Two people who are exceptional at everything except staying away from each other.
Ruthless by Design is a dark billionaire romance about power, buried secrets, and the specific, inconvenient discovery that the person who makes you sharpest is the person you cannot afford to want.
This book contains:
Enemies to lovers slow burn
Forced proximity and co-leadership tension
A morally complex hero with a secret he should have shared sooner
A heroine who investigates first and feels later
Explicit scenes from Chapter 22 onward
A full happily ever after
Series setup for Book Two without cliffhanger endings
Book One of the Empire of Rivals series. Reading order: Ruthless by Design, Wicked Inheritance, Beautiful Wreckage, The Last Rival.
For readers who love dark billionaire romance, rivals to lovers, forced proximity, and the kind of love story that builds slowly and burns completely.
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