The Merger Clause

To keep the empire his grandfather built, a ruthless billionaire has to marry the one woman who'll never forgive him — the rival CEO he tried to bury — and the contract that's supposed to save them both starts feeling dangerously real.

After her father died believing he was a failure, Elena Cross blames one family: the Sterlings. So when ruthless billionaire Adrian Sterling needs her — and a sixty-year-old clause that only unlocks through marriage between their families — she agrees to wear his ring on one condition: he saves the firm her father built. The rule is simple. No feelings. But every performance gets more convincing, and Adrian is hiding what he really knows about the night her father lost everything. When the truth surfaces, Elena has to decide whether the man she married is her ruin — or the first person willing to burn his own empire down for her.