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ACQUIRED: A DARK BILLIONAIRE ROMANCE
He's been watching her for eighteen months.
Nora Chen was the best signals intelligence analyst the NSA ever hired. Then she blew the whistle on an illegal surveillance program—and they destroyed her career, blacklisted her name, and erased her from the industry.
Two years later she's broke, brilliant, and running out of options… until a cybersecurity contract lands in her inbox.
The audit the digital infrastructure of Mercer Systems, one of the most powerful tech empires in the world.
The man behind Kael Mercer.
She doesn't know he's the one who sent the contract.
She doesn't know he owns her apartment building. That he routed the consulting job that kept her afloat. That he's spent eighteen months compiling a 642-page dossier on her life—her skills, her habits, her coffee order, the number of leaves on her basil plant.
She doesn't know that the man watching her through the glass wall of her new office has been watching her for a very long time.
And she definitely doesn't know that Kael Mercer never pursues anything he isn't prepared to own.
Nora Chen just walked into his empire.
And Kael Mercer has no intention of letting her walk back out.
ACQUIRED is Book 1 of The Mercer Possession, a five-book dark billionaire romance series. Kael doesn't soften. Nora doesn't break. The heat doesn't stop.
Explicit content • D/s dynamics • Morally gray hero • Brilliant heroine who fights back
Control is only the beginning. Power shifts. Secrets surface. And the contract Nora Chen signed with Kael Mercer starts to reveal terms she never saw coming.
HEA guaranteed across the series. All five books available free in Kindle Unlimited.
Nora Chen was the best signals intelligence analyst the NSA ever hired. Then she blew the whistle on an illegal surveillance program—and they destroyed her career, blacklisted her name, and erased her from the industry.
Two years later she's broke, brilliant, and running out of options… until a cybersecurity contract lands in her inbox.
The audit the digital infrastructure of Mercer Systems, one of the most powerful tech empires in the world.
The man behind Kael Mercer.
She doesn't know he's the one who sent the contract.
She doesn't know he owns her apartment building. That he routed the consulting job that kept her afloat. That he's spent eighteen months compiling a 642-page dossier on her life—her skills, her habits, her coffee order, the number of leaves on her basil plant.
She doesn't know that the man watching her through the glass wall of her new office has been watching her for a very long time.
And she definitely doesn't know that Kael Mercer never pursues anything he isn't prepared to own.
Nora Chen just walked into his empire.
And Kael Mercer has no intention of letting her walk back out.
ACQUIRED is Book 1 of The Mercer Possession, a five-book dark billionaire romance series. Kael doesn't soften. Nora doesn't break. The heat doesn't stop.
Explicit content • D/s dynamics • Morally gray hero • Brilliant heroine who fights back
Control is only the beginning. Power shifts. Secrets surface. And the contract Nora Chen signed with Kael Mercer starts to reveal terms she never saw coming.
HEA guaranteed across the series. All five books available free in Kindle Unlimited.
317 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 3, 2026
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March 10, 2026
Nora was contracted for an IT audit, but found so much more than what she was bargaining for.
Karl Mercer, CEO, had been keeping tabs on her for 18 months. He knew he wanted control of every aspect of her, but he didn't expect to fall for her.
This book has a lot of IT lingo, but described in the way of a man trying to control his entire world like he's built his empire - with code, infrastructure, and firewalls.
I enjoyed it. It's not my normal kind of book, but it was good.
Karl Mercer, CEO, had been keeping tabs on her for 18 months. He knew he wanted control of every aspect of her, but he didn't expect to fall for her.
This book has a lot of IT lingo, but described in the way of a man trying to control his entire world like he's built his empire - with code, infrastructure, and firewalls.
I enjoyed it. It's not my normal kind of book, but it was good.
Displaying 1 of 1 review