The circumstances these two found themselves in when they were students and now as adults played a lot into all the maneuvering and machinations going on. The thing was, that plan involved what he thought he knew of Ellison, but then thirty-five-year-old Ellison was not the same as twenty-year-old Ellison, and even the latter wasn't some vile human either. Vengeance was his, and he had everything planned out. Goodness, but how this book had me so emotionally invested in everything that was happening between the main characters! I absolutely understood and empathized with Grey. While Ellison may not have known anything about Grey's hostile takeover, Grey knows nothing about the man Ellison has become.or that Grey is the only man Ellison wants. York Capital is his for the taking, but the cherry on top would be to have Ellison York in servitude for two weeks in exchange for Ellison's parents not to lose their home. A decade and a half later and Grey Blackwood is on the cusp of exacting one last bit of revenge on those who cost him so much. It all starts with a prank gone wrong, one that leaves a student with a promising future stripped of opportunities that were already committed to him and another student strapped with guilt at the role he played and his silence afterward in the entire debacle. Hostile Takeover kicks off the series with the same title, and it's a delicious, tension-filled enemies-to-lovers romance with a side of fake relationship trope thrown into the mix. Lucy Lennox has a brand-new series, and if the rest of it is as fantastic as the first full-length novel, then I've got a heck of a lot to look forward to in the coming months.

Hostile Takeover by Lucy Lennox