HOSTILE TAKEOVER

Lexi Varga has walked into fifteen companies in crisis and fixed twelve of them. She finds the decision everyone stopped questioning, writes the plan that saves the company, and is on a plane to the next city on Day 90 — before anyone can get attached. She has never once been intimidated by a CEO.

Then the board of Farrell Group hires her over the founder's explicit objection, and Donovan Farrell gives her an office next to the mailroom.

Before her ninety days run out, there's the glass conference room she takes across the hall from his instead, the fourteen thousand unindexed files he hands her with a straight face, the mistake of his she finds in seventy-two hours and is infuriatingly kind about, arguments that run past midnight and end over sour cream raisin pie in a cracked red diner booth, a blizzard that strands them on a dispatch floor at 2 a.m. trading the stories of their fathers, and a day count on the glass wall that neither of them wants to reach the end of.

She's spent sixteen years being the help nobody can refuse, because staying long enough to need someone is how her family lost everything. He's spent twenty-five years making sure no outsider with a plan can ever do to him what one did to his father. Ninety days in a glass office is about to prove them both wrong.

Billionaire workplace romance where the war has rules, the board has front-row seats, and every argument runs a little longer than it needs to. The kind of book where the most romantic thing a billionaire ever says is "You're right."

WHY THIS WILL SELL

→ Romance > Billionaires & Millionaires sits at 9.8 sales-to-comp (Hot Mainstream) with 515 estimated daily sales per top 20 title — one of the highest-volume romance shelves on Kindle

→ Dual-category play with Romance > Workplace (12.5 sales-to-comp, Hot Mainstream) gives a rising shelf with half the competition

→ Enemies to Lovers + Workplace is a proven bestseller stack — Enemies to Lovers adds a third Hot Mainstream shelf (9.8 sales-to-comp)

→ Equal rivals, not boss and assistant — nearly every office enemies-to-lovers bestseller is boss/employee; this fills the gap

→ Forced proximity is the top billionaire theme by royalties, up five positions — the ninety-day glass-office clock delivers it on every page

→ Built to be quoted — "I fight you to your face" and "You're right" are screenshot lines

TROPES: • Enemies to Lovers • Billionaire Workplace Romance • Rivals Forced to Work Together • Equals, Not Boss & Employee • Forced Proximity • Slow Burn That Detonates • Sparring & Banter • Competence Is Attractive • Strong Heroine Who Never Backs Down • Dual POV • A Ninety-Day Countdown on the Glass Wall • Snowed In Together • He Orders Her Pie Without Asking • The Grand Gesture Is Admitting She Was Right

HEAT LEVEL: Steamy / High Spice ceiling — three flagged intimacy scenes (first kiss, first night, reunion) built for Dial the Heat™; play them closed door or fully explicit and emotionally grounded without changing a single plot beat

Perfect for fans of: T L Swan, Ana Huang, Kat Singleton, and Rosa Lucas

WHAT'S INSIDE THIS PACKAGE

⭐️ Story Premise — high-concept pitch, elevator pitch, and Market-Matched™ market validation with triple-category positioning and competitive analysis

⭐️ Complete Codex — full story bible with main characters, supporting cast of 11, the Linden Building's glass-walled "Fishbowl" in downtown Minneapolis, the Cedar Mill dispatch floor, 110-day winter-to-spring engagement timeline, dual third-person voice system with distinct verbal patterns for Lexi (numerate, wry, ledger-minded) and Donovan (plain, physical, hockey-and-roofing understatement), relationship progression, heat-flexible intimacy guidance, and series seeds for 3 future books

⭐️ Chapter-by-Chapter Outline — 18 chapters + epilogue with emotional beats, word count targets, scene breakdowns, and a day-by-day ninety-day engagement clock

⭐️ AI-Ready Chapter Prompts — detailed writing instructions for every chapter with tone, pacing, heat-level progression, and distinct voice guidance for alternating POV

⭐️ Marketing Copy — Amazon listing with categories and keywords, back cover copy, social media posts, newsletter announcement, reader magnet concepts, and series launch strategy

⭐️ Market-Matched™ Brief — market snapshot across three Hot Mainstream categories, seven-keyword strategy with rationale, competitive positioning, and launch plan covering pricing, categories, cover direction, and series strategy

One buyer. One story. Exclusively yours.