“Three founders who built their worlds to exact specifications. Three women hired to break the protocols. One board chairman who turns every private life into a public spectacle.”
The Vanguard Initiative is the most prestigious tech incubator in the industry — forty million dollars in funding, board oversight, and a theatrical chairman who has decided that visibility is mandatory.
Across the trilogy, three of Vanguard’s most brilliant, most reclusive founders are forced out of their climate-controlled labs and into manufactured PR spectacles: a charity bachelor auction, a press campaign, a viral crisis tour. Each founder runs his world on control. Each is paired with the one professional engineered to dismantle it.
Threaded through every book: Winston Carmichael, the Vanguard board chairman whose spectacle theatre manufactures every crisis the founders are forced to survive — the recurring force that drives all three couples together and that each pairing, by the end of its book, learns to outmanoeuvre.
Three career-driven heroines. Three guaranteed HEAs.
Book One — The Auction Algorithm (Chloe & Julian)
“A control-obsessed algorithm architect. A PR strategist who rewrites his rules. One viral leak that starts everything.”
Julian Vance runs his world at sixty-eight degrees. Every variable is calibrated, every outcome projected. His predictive healthcare algorithm is three weeks from its final board presentation, and nothing is permitted to deviate from the plan.
Then Winston Carmichael, the Vanguard Initiative’s theatrical board chairman, announces a charity bachelor auction. Compliance is mandatory. Refusal means losing forty million dollars in incubator funding. Julian calculates the variables and complies. It is the last rational decision he makes for weeks.
Enter Chloe Jenkins, PR strategist, who bypasses his security desk and rewrites his calendar before he can object. She deletes his schedule, rewrites his auction biography, and introduces a variable he has no equation for. The arrangement is contractual. The chemistry is not.
As the public spectacle escalates from auction to tabloid scandal to viral crisis, Julian reaches for the only tool he knows — control, algorithms, and suppression protocols. And discovers they all fail when it matters most.
A grumpy-sunshine, fake-dating contemporary romance about a man who calibrated his entire life to keep love out of the equation — and the woman who turned out to be the load-bearing variable.
Fake Dating • Grumpy × Sunshine • Alternating First Person (Chloe & Julian) • HEA
Book Two — The Engagement Equation (Penelope & Arthur)
“A grumpy green-energy genius. A media coach who turns his silence into spectacle. A press conference that destroys everything.”
Arthur Sterling does not do cameras. He does not do vlogs, press events, or Winston Carmichael’s spectacle theatre. He does load-bearing calculations, hydrogen fuel cells, and the controlled darkness of his subterranean lab. Until the board threatens to freeze his programme and pair him with the one person designed to dismantle his privacy.
Penelope Hayes is strategic, sharp, and entirely professional. This is a campaign, not a relationship. The contract is clear: appear together, generate metrics, protect both careers. She has an agency to launch and a reputation to build. She does not fall for clients.
But an accidental live feed changes the rules. A private audio recording falls into the wrong hands. And Arthur, convinced that self-destruction is the same thing as protection, walks into a press conference prepared to sacrifice everything for her.
Penelope is not prepared to let him. She did not come this far to watch a brilliant, infuriating man wreck himself for her benefit. She came to fight — and she intends to win.
Fake Relationship • Sacrificial Protector • Alternating First Person (Penelope & Arthur) • HEA
Book Three — The Publicity Protocol (Gemma & Harrison) • Series Finale
“The last founder in the bunker. The one who built the fortress. The one who has to decide whether to stay in it or run.”
Harrison Cole built his world at sixty-two degrees, sealed behind biometric blast doors and industrial cooling fans. He built the Vanguard Initiative’s network to protect the people he loves, and he has been ignoring Winston Carmichael’s calls for twenty-four days. He is the last founder standing. He is perfectly safe.
Until Gemma Rossi commandeers his server aisle for event staging crates and an earpiece makes her voice the only variable he cannot block. She is vibrant, logistically brilliant, and entirely unmoved by his protocols.
He needs her presence to anchor him through the viral spectacle the board has manufactured. She needs the Vanguard platform to launch her independent agency. Neither of them plans to need each other.
But when a Level Five cyberattack strikes his servers and Harrison’s deepest instinct takes over — seal the blast doors, lock down the systems, remove every variable that compromises operational security — he discovers that some variables become load-bearing without him noticing.
Gemma returns his access badge. Harrison sits in his sixty-two-degree bunker with a spreadsheet he thinks is an apology and a silence that confirms she was right about everything.
Reclusive Billionaire • Opposites Attract • Alternating First Person (Gemma & Harrison) • HEA
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