A corporate raider. A single mom CEO. One hostile takeover. One five day board vote. One second chance.

Heather Gibson, manufacturing CEO
Four hundred jobs rest on her shoulders and her father’s legacy is on the line.
She will not let Woodwerth Enterprises carve up her company or her daughter’s future.
She will not trust Mark Woodwerth again after Stanford and twelve years of silence.

Mark Woodwerth, billionaire CEO known as “the Surgeon”
He can close the deal fast and clean, but he is done letting his family destroy people.
He wants a partnership that keeps Gibson Manufacturing alive and proves he can show up for Heather.
He cannot undo his past, and his brother is ready to weaponize it.

Tropes you get
✅ Second chance romance ✅ Billionaire CEO romance ✅ Single mom heroine ✅ Workplace rivals to lovers ✅ Corporate intrigue and boardroom warfare ✅ Redemption arc hero ✅ Protective hero and found family feel ✅ Open door spice ✅ Happily ever after

The collision course
Christopher Woodwerth forces an emergency board session in five days.
If he wins, Gibson Manufacturing gets dismantled and gutted for profit.
Heather and Mark have one shot to stop a manufactured crisis from becoming a real catastrophe.

High stakes corporate tension. Earned trust. Intense chemistry.
A hero who stops hiding behind control and starts choosing his family in public and in private.
A hard won happily ever after with real consequences and real payoff.

Perfect for fans of second chance billionaire romance, single mom workplace romance, and corporate intrigue love stories with open door heat.

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