The Cost

She was sent to find his weakness. She found something she can't put in a report.

Quinn Mercer is precise, unsentimental, and climbing. When Sullivan Maddox assigns her to map rival Declan Chase's acquisition strategy during a sixty-day due diligence window, she takes the assignment the way she takes everything - seriously.

Declan Chase built his empire from nothing and lost his biggest deal to Sullivan Maddox three years ago. He's been rebuilding ever since. He knows Quinn isn't in that conference room by accident. He pays attention anyway.

Sixty days. One shared document room. Two people who can't afford to want what they're building.

When the assignment unravels and the truth lands on Declan's desk, Quinn walks out without defending herself. Twelve days later he withdraws the deal he spent three years engineering - quietly, without announcement - and walks twelve blocks to find her.

The Cost is a steamy enemies-to-lovers romance about two people who built themselves from nothing and couldn't calculate the one acquisition that actually mattered.