The Leverage Point

The venture capitalist who speaks in spreadsheets. The brand strategist who speaks in stories. The only thing more volatile than their negotiation style is what happens when they stop negotiating.

Gabriel Sterling processes the world in numbers. He is the managing partner at Sterling Blackwell, and he has built his career on the certainty that data is reliable and people are not. He is precise. He is controlled. He has not lost a deal in four years. He is also — and he would deny this under oath — completely undone by a brand strategist who walked into his conference room and dismantled his entire presentation with three questions and a smile that suggested she already knew the answers.

Isabel Vega does not speak in spreadsheets. She speaks in stories — brand narratives, consumer psychology, the emotional architecture of why people choose one thing over another. She is brilliant. She is not impressed by his corner office. She finds his reliance on data endearing in the way you might find a toddler's confidence endearing. He does not appreciate this comparison. She does not care.

The deal requires them to work together. The building requires a consortium. And the space between "professional adversary" and "the person I cannot stop thinking about in the elevator" is narrower than either of them calculated.

"She's a variable I didn't account for. I account for everything. This is — unprecedented."

The Leverage Point is Book 1 in The Blackwell Collective, a five-book interconnected standalone series set in a single building where the deals are high-stakes and the feelings are higher. Dual first-person POV. High heat. Guaranteed HEA.

Workplace romance. He falls first. She's smarter than he is and they both know it. Boardroom tension. Hotel bar scene. The banter is the point.

For fans of he-falls-first workplace romance, banter-driven enemies-to-lovers, and heroes who lose their composure one elevator ride at a time.

Free with this complete series.