The Standing Agreement

She has never once needed anything. That's about to change.

Avery Quinn doesn't lose. She closes nine-figure matters in eleven minutes, walks into every room already holding the map, and has spent nineteen years being the woman who requires nothing from anyone. It has cost her more than she's ever let herself count.

Then a friend hands her a card with no name on it—an address, and a warning: the man who runs intake will refuse her the first time.

He does.

Elias Crane built The Standing on the ruins of one failure he's never told anyone about, and he has no interest in Avery's closing arguments. He wants the truth, in her own voice, about what she actually wants—and he is patient enough to wait as long as it takes her to stop negotiating and start asking.

What follows is thirty days with no automatic ending, one struck-through safeword that isn't struck for long, and a woman who has to choose, in daylight, whether any of it survives outside the dark.

High heat. Deep aftercare. HEA guaranteed.

The Terms of Her Surrender is a standalone-satisfying Book 1 with a full arc and a happy ending—followed by Book Two, Yield.