Forthcoming · Contemporary Romance
The deal that can save his company will cost him the one place he cannot bear to lose. Proving it may cost the lawyer advising him the future she has spent years building.
Mara Ellison has spent nine years making herself indispensable without ever becoming vulnerable. The Vale House engagement is supposed to secure her partnership case: test every clean path through a crushing debt deadline—even if the strongest answer is selling Aster House, the Manhattan hotel CEO Adrian Vale’s late mother designed.
Adrian knows the numbers. He also knows what a balance sheet cannot hold—the staff, the standards, and the last proof of his mother’s work. Mara’s judgment is as infuriating as it is exact, and the more they work side by side, the harder it becomes to separate professional respect from a desire neither of them will misuse.
Then Mara uncovers a conflict inside the sale process, putting the career she has built and the company’s best path forward under scrutiny. To choose a future together, she must risk the status she has earned, and he must decide whether love means keeping what matters—or finally letting it go.
The Terms We Keep is a mature contemporary romance about professional equals, costly integrity, and a love earned through changed behavior and honest choices.
Editorial Feature in the Journal
Explore our long-form introduction to the book’s themes, character dynamics, and setting: The Architecture of Vulnerability: Introducing Audrey Hayes and ‘The Terms We Keep’.
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