The Retainer

Beth Walestine built an empire of ambition, carefully sealing away the ghost of a past love. But when her media company merges with a powerful engineering firm, the man she swore she was over walks back into her life, standing on the other side of the conference table and the deal. Martin Andre, the one who chose someone else without a word, is now her unavoidable professional partner. Old wounds resurface, complicated by a shared history and an undeniable, dangerous chemistry that refuses to be ignored. As their professional collaboration blurs into an arrangement with no labels, Beth finds herself caught between the career she meticulously crafted and a heart she thought was long-since mended. Can she maintain her carefully constructed walls when the past demands a reckoning, or will this unexpected merger shatter everything she thought she knew about moving on?

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