The Auction

The Black Ledger Auction is the most exclusive event of the year-an invitation-only bidding war where the world's most powerful men compete for one-of-a-kind contracts with the most elite escorts. Every woman sets her own terms. Every deal is final. And this year, Cassidy Hayes is offering something no one ever has before-her virginity.

She doesn't believe in fairytales. The man she once loved taught her that. Jaxon Kane-her brother's best friend, her childhood crush, the first man who ever shattered her heart. She's spent years trying to erase him from her mind, trying to find someone else who could make her feel the way he did. The Black Ledger was supposed to be the solution.

What she doesn't expect is for him to be in the audience.

What she never could have predicted... is that he'd go all in.

Jaxon promised his best friend he'd stay away. And he has. But no matter how many women he's had, none of them have ever compared to her. He never thought he'd see Cassidy at The Black Ledger. He never imagined he'd watch her put herself up for auction, offering herself to men who could never deserve her.

So he does the only thing he can. He outbids them all.

Now, Cassidy is bound to him by contract-one she designed to replace him in her mind. But Jaxon has other plans. Because he didn't just buy her for one night. He bought her to prove that he was never the one who let go.

And now that she's his, he has no intention of letting her go again.