<p>No one knows how new members are selected to the board of Hale Banking and Holding. But there are rumors of a sordid rite of initiation.</p><p>Whispers how one woman and nine men disappear into a boardroom.</p><p>This time that woman will be me.</p><p>The Hale family owns everything—the eighth largest bank in the world everyone in our town even the mortgage on my parents’ mansion. And now Royce Hale wants to own me.</p><p>He is charming. Seductive. Ruthless. But above all he’s the prince of lies. My body may tighten with white-hot desire under his penetrating gaze but I refuse to enjoy it.</p><p>I’ll make a deal with the devil to save my family and sell myself to the Hales. But Royce will never own my heart.</p>