The Equity of Desire

Odette Waller has spent her entire life proving that brilliance-not privilege-earns a place at the top. A Yale-educated corporate litigator with an undefeated reputation, she fears no courtroom, no billionaire, and certainly no man.

Until she meets Maximus McCarthy.

Feared by boardrooms, worshipped by the media, and powerful enough to reshape industries with a single signature, Maximus has never heard the word *no*-until a fearless attorney challenges him across a negotiation table.

What begins as a ruthless corporate battle soon becomes a dangerous game of wills. He wants her working for him. She wants nothing to do with him. But every encounter blurs the line between hatred and irresistible attraction.

As billion-dollar deals, hidden enemies, betrayals, and deadly conspiracies threaten to destroy everything she's built, Odette finds herself caught between the safe future she's always planned... and the dangerously possessive man willing to burn down the world just to protect her.

In a battle where love is negotiated like a contract, surrender may be the greatest risk of all.

**Some debts are paid in money. Others... are paid with the heart.**