The Initiation

<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.<br /><br><br /><br>Whispers how one woman and nine men disappear into a boardroom.<br /><br><br /><br>This time that woman will be me.<br /><br><br /><br>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.<br /><br><br /><br>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.<br /><br><br /><br>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>