Hostile Takeover -the story of Julian vane and Elena Thorne He plays a zero-sum game. She’s about to change the rules.Julian Vane is "The Vulture" a man who builds empires by destroying them. Cold, calculated, and impossibly wealthy, he lives behind a fortress of glass and steel. He doesn’t do trust, and he certainly doesn’t do love. To Julian, every person has a price, and every heart is a liability.Elena Thorne is the best forensic accountant in the business because she has no soul to sell. When a federal task force embeds her as Julian’s new executive assistant, her mission is clear: find the trail of blood and dirty money Julian has spent a lifetime hiding. She’s prepared for his brilliance. She’s prepared for his cruelty.She isn't prepared for the man beneath the monster.Trapped together in a high stakes world of corporate espionage and lethal secrets, the line between the hunter and the hunted begins to blur. In the boardroom, it’s war,In private, it’s a magnetic pull that neither can escape. As Elena digs deeper, she discovers that Julian’s secrets are more dangerous than she ever imagined and that his "hostile takeover" might not be of a company, but of her very soul.Now, with the cartel closing in and the feds demanding results, Elena must decide:Does she burn his empire to the ground? Or does she risk everything to save the man who has finally breached her defenses?In the game of power, the ultimate risk is surrender.