Bought at Midnight

Adrian Voss bought her company. He already ruined her career once. Dani Reyes has spent three years keeping Halcyon Media independent from men like him — men who strip companies for parts and call it strategy. Now he owns the building, and he's put her in charge of the relaunch. Then he second-guesses her in front of the board. She drafts her resignation. He offers her forty-eight hours to prove the campaign. Then he gets in the car. They are snowed in. They are not professional. In the morning he says it won't happen again. It happens again. The relaunch hits and the board moves to gut the magazine arm anyway — the one thing he actually bought the company to save. He offers Dani a clean exit. She offers him a condition. Her name above his on the masthead. He signs.