Debt of the Heir

Bridget Osei married into the Halloway family knowing exactly what she was getting: a husband who wanted her to run the foundation, and a mother-in-law who wanted her out. Nine years later, the foundation is fine and the marriage is not. Bridget sleeps in the east bedroom. She and Marcus exchange calendar invites. When his holding company nearly fails on a bad overseas bet, the board sells the last unencumbered asset in the group — the foundation she built — to a fund that plans to strip it bare. Bridget finds out at a donor lunch, three hours after signing the year's grants. She threatens to resign and go public. Marcus does not stop her. He does something harder: he finally reads the books. What follows is a public board fight, a private kitchen war at 2 a.m., a company split, and a weekend on Cape Cod where nine years of silence finally find their say. A billionaire marriage-in-crisis second chance romance about two competent adults deciding whether the institution is worth keeping.