Isabella Moretti has spent five years fighting to keep her family's restaurant alive—three generations of legacy, her mother's fading memories, the only home she's ever known. Now Liam Sterling, Chicago's most notorious billionaire playboy, holds her future in his hands. The loan she took to save Moretti's has been called. He wants her property. She wants to survive.
Then he offers a deal: eighteen months to make the restaurant profitable. If she succeeds, she keeps everything. If she fails, he takes it all. But Isabella refuses to be just another distressed asset. She demands Liam learn what he's gambling with—the people, the neighborhood, the love baked into every recipe.
He expected a simple business transaction. He didn't expect her. And as the lines between lender and lover blur, Liam must decide what kind of man he wants to be—the playboy who takes what he wants, or the partner Isabella believes he can become.
This billionaire romance is a gripping, steamy, emotional, and heart-wrenching listen packed with enemies-to-lovers, forced proximity, workplace tension, slow-burn desire, family legacy, redemption, and a possessive alpha hero who will rewrite every rule for the woman who changed him.