Promised to the Hood Millionaire I Hate

Reina Sallis has spent years making sure she never owes a man anything.Her tax and bookkeeping business is hers. Her federal credential is hers. Every dollar, every client, and every hard-earned piece of independence came without a man s name attached to it. So when Cash Boone the hood millionaire she has spent twelve years refusing to forgive walks into her Detroit shop carrying an old piece of paper, Reina quickly learns there is one debt she never knew was waiting to collect.Her father s.Years ago, Roman Sallis owed the Boone family money. The debt was supposedly forgiven in exchange for a promise between two families: Reina would one day become a Boone s wife. Even worse, nineteen-year-old Reina unknowingly put her own signature on the document as a witness.And now Sylvester Boone is dying.His final wishes place Cash s family empire, his reckless brother, and Reina directly in the middle of unfinished street business. Cash may have the money, power, city contracts, and reputation to make problems disappear, but Reina refuses to become another problem he can solve with a check. When he offers her a quarter-million dollars and freedom from the arrangement, she throws back the one thing men like Cash rarely hear from anybody.No.Because Reina would rather struggle on her own than spend another day wondering what a powerful man believes he has purchased from her.But hatred becomes harder to hold on to when the man she remembers and the man standing in front of her refuse to remain the same person.As an arrangement neither of them wanted draws Reina deeper into Cash s world, old resentment begins colliding with an attraction she refuses to put a name to. Behind Cash s silence are decisions he has never explained. Behind Reina s independence are wounds she has spent half her life turning into rules. And somewhere between sharing a last name on paper and learning one another behind closed doors, the marriage begins feeling dangerously less pretend.Then the real trouble comes.A powerful enemy begins pulling at Cash s business, Reina s professional license is placed dangerously close to the line, federal investigators start asking questions, and family loyalty becomes something that could cost far more than money. Dante Kilgore s warning about Reina s credential comes before the investigation even begins, proving somebody has been planning moves long before Reina understood she was on the board.And just when Reina begins believing Cash may be the one man whose money doesn't come with a hook, she discovers the most devastating possibility of all:Cash may have known more from the beginning than he ever told her.Was Reina truly forced into a marriage with the man she hates?Or has the greater danger always been discovering why Cash Boone wanted her close enough to hate him in the first place?In this emotionally charged African American urban romance, money, family loyalty, street power, betrayal, and an unwanted marriage collide as two people who know how to survive alone discover that love requires something neither of them has ever been comfortable giving away trust.