The Merger Clause: An Enemies-to-Lovers Office Romance (Merger Clause Trilogy Book 1)

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She wrote the rules to survive him. She didn't write one for falling in love.

Maya Bennett has spent six years at Whitmore & Associates learning exactly one thing about Ethan Vance: he is the best consultant in the building, and he is never going to be hers. Then Sarah Chen puts them both on the McKinley account — co-led, one partnership on the line, one winner — and the rivalry Maya has protected herself with for three years becomes the only thing standing between her and the job she has wanted her whole career.

Then the client makes an impossible request: he wants to see the golden couple everyone's already gossiping about. Not colleagues. Together.

So they write the rules in a coffee shop with a chained pen. No real feelings. No mixing business with pleasure. Confidential. An exit clause for either of them, no questions asked. Seven rules to turn two rivals into a couple convincing enough to save an account — and specific enough, Maya tells herself, to keep her heart out of it entirely.

She has never once written a rule she didn't intend to break.

One retreat. One bed. One line, crossed on purpose. By the time the McKinley account is won, the rules are in ashes and the partnership is the smaller thing at stake. But the night they finally have everything — the title, the account, each other, in public, for real — Maya's phone lights up with a message from a number she doesn't recognize.

Ask him what his family did to yours.

The Merger Clause is Book One of a slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers trilogy about two people who are excellent at negotiating everything except what they feel. Grab a coffee, ignore the fine print, and don't get too attached to the rules — Maya and Ethan certainly won't.