Elise Cross

Wren Calloway is thirty, a forensic accountant, and two hundred and twelve million dollars short. That is the hole in the Lakeshore Steelworkers pension fund that cost her union fathers their retirements and, she is certain, her own father his life. Every trail ends inside Hale Tower, in an archive the Hale family keeps under lock. When Gideon Hale, billionaire CEO, must be engaged by his thirty-fifth birthday or lose control of his company under his late grandfather’s Fidelity Clause, Wren becomes Wren Ashby, event planner and fiancée of record. The contract has a no-romance clause. Wren has a three-column ledger: SAID, SHOWN, FELT. She keeps the third column empty. It does not stay that way.