Marry For Convenience Book 3

He returned from exile to conquer a dynasty. He never calculated the price of her heart.

Carlos Mason

is no longer the man he was five years ago.

Cast out of New York’s elite corporate inner circle and sent into a brutal European exile, he has spent half a decade transforming himself into a dangerous boardroom predator.

Now, he’s back in Manhattan to claim his father’s rightful throne at Mason Industries.

But the strict, unyielding probate clause in his father’s will leaves him facing a clinical ultimatum: to secure his thirty-five percent voting block, Carlos must execute a legally verified domestic merger before the quarterly shareholder assembly.

He doesn’t need love. He needs a perfect, calculated pawn.

Teresa Stewart

is a brilliant abstract artist, fiercely independent, and completely unyielding in her pride. Her Brooklyn art gallery is her life’s masterpiece—but a predatory buyout engineered by a ruthless shadow syndicate known as The Cordova Group is hours away from evicting her and crushing her legacy.

When Carlos steps out of the shadows, his terms are absolute: Sign a legal, binding contract marriage on the public registry.

On paper, it’s a flawless, mutually beneficial transaction.

Teresa provides the domestic status Carlos needs to destroy the old-guard directors; Carlos provides an unassailable corporate protection matrix that completely freezes her eviction.

They build their defenses, move into a luxury Manhattan penthouse, and agree to keep a strict professional distance.

But the exact second the ink dries, their rigid perimeters violently fracture.

Forced into high-stakes cohabitation under the constant glare of media trackers and rival corporate spies, their cold boardroom strategy completely turns to ash under the heat of a raw, white-hot physical chemistry.

The stoic, ruthless billionaire drops his executive armor, his calculated posture transforming into a fierce, deeply possessive protectiveness over his new wife.

When the deceptions shatter and a desperate syndicate launches a brutal, high-octane assault—wiping the building’s main servers and abducting Teresa in the middle of a torrential storm—the boardroom war is officially dead.

Trapped in a lethal race against time before an international cargo ship clears the harbor, Carlos must unite with Justin Mason and Dominic Ashford to descend into the dark.

He signed the paperwork to satisfy a will. But standing on a rain-slicked pier in the middle of a high-stakes firefight, Carlos realizes he didn’t just conquer a throne. He triggered a war for forever.