She was sent to take everything from him. She never expected him to take something from her first.
Nisha Arora has spent her entire career being the smartest person in a room full of men who won't look up from their agendas long enough to notice. As Chief Strategy Officer of Arora Media, she is precise, brilliant, and perpetually underestimated ? most dangerously by her own family. So when a hostile takeover from Sweden's most powerful dynasty begins dismantling her company from the inside, she is the only one who saw it coming.
She is also the one sent to Stockholm to stop it.
Callum Voss is thirty-two years old, ice-cold, and running Voss Global the way a surgeon runs an operating theatre ? without sentiment, without hesitation, and without losing. He has been preparing for the Aroras for twenty years. He has a plan. He has a file. He has a hatred so precisely maintained it has become almost professional.
He was not prepared for her.
What begins as a negotiation becomes something neither of them has a protocol for.
There is a secret buried beneath the merger ? older than the boardroom, older than the deal, older than the hatred between their families. A secret signed on a snowy Stockholm night twenty years ago by two men who believed they could pay for silence forever. A child nobody was supposed to find. A woman nobody was supposed to survive. A fire that burned down more than a house.
Nisha came to Stockholm to save her company.
She is about to find out that her company is the least of what was taken.
What does it cost a woman to be brilliant in a world designed to ignore her?
What happens when a man who has spent twenty years building walls meets the one person he can't keep out?
What is buried in the locket her mother never opens?
Who decided that two families should destroy each other ? and why are they still watching?
And what, exactly, was in the photograph taken in a Stockholm room on the night it all began?
The Devil's Dividend is a dark contemporary romance for readers who want slow burn that means something ? enemies-to-lovers with a thriller's spine, a chess match that becomes a confession, a hostile takeover that becomes the most intimate surrender of both their lives.
This is not a soft love story.
It is the story of two people trained from childhood to win, suddenly locked in a room with the only person in the world they cannot outthink ? and what they find on the other side of that.
The twist at the end of this book has been building since page one.
You will not see it coming.
You will not stop thinking about it.
And there are four more books waiting on the other side of it.
Content advisory: Dark contemporary romance, 18+. Explicit content. Morally grey characters. Power imbalance. Corporate espionage, blackmail, and emotional complexity. A hero who is controlled and occasionally cruel before he is soft. A heroine who refuses, under any circumstances, to break.
Perfect for fans of: Ana huang · Rina Kent · Devney Perry · Penelope Douglas · CD Reiss · Kennedy Ryan · dark romance readers who want their slow burn to have a conspiracy spine.
