She's trying to save the company. He's there to take it. Neither of them planned for the part where they can't stay out of each other's way - or each other's bed. Lena Cross built the Arden Holdings empire from a chair nobody thought she'd earn, and she runs it from behind a wall nineteen years in the making. So when a quiet, brutal acquisition starts squeezing the company she'd burn the world to protect, she sees the hand on the scale before her own board does - and she traces it straight to the Halcyon Group, the firm that never loses. Dominic Rourke is the man they send when a company has to be taken apart cleanly. He's spent twenty years believing everything has a price. Then he walks into Lena's boardroom, and for the first time in his career, he meets a number he can't make. Forced together through the takeover, they fight, they strategize, they cross every line they draw - until Dominic uncovers the truth beneath the deal: Arden was never the target. It's the cover. And the secret buried inside it could destroy the most dangerous man either of them has ever crossed. Now the shark has to choose between the only thing he's ever been good at and the one woman he refuses to put a price on. Hostile Intent is the scorching, slow-burn first book in The Power Play Series - six interconnected standalone romances set inside an empire quietly coming apart. Enemies-to-lovers, hostile-takeover tension, a morally gray hero, and a heroine who never folds. HEA guaranteed. Intended for readers 18+.