She told the truth once. It cost her everything. Now the man who helped destroy her life wants her trust again. Five years ago, forensic accountant Sloane Hartley exposed a fraud that sent powerful men including her own fiancé to prison. The fallout was brutal. Public betrayal. Career ruin. A heart locked behind steel walls. She survived by keeping her world small, controlled, and painfully lonely. Then Declan Cross walks back into her life. Once a relentless prosecutor. Now a tech billionaire on the brink of a fifty billion dollar merger. Rumors of financial corruption threaten to bring his empire down, and there is only one person whose word the world will believe. Sloane. He offers her $10 million to audit his company in 90 days. Total independence and access to sealed files that could change everything she thought she knew about her past. She wants to refuse. She should refuse. But when danger follows her back into the shadows of New York and the Hamptons, walking away is no longer an option. Forced into close proximity with the man she blames for her greatest heartbreak, Sloane uncovers more than financial sabotage. Someone inside CrossTech is hiding a long running crime. Someone willing to destroy her to keep it buried. And the closer she gets to the truth, the more she realizes the enemy she feared may be the only person she can trust. Declan Cross has his own secrets. Secrets rooted in guilt, obsession, and a choice he made years ago that shattered the woman he could never forget. Loving her now may cost him everything he built. Telling her the truth may cost him her forever. In a world where power is currency and betrayal wears a tailored suit, redemption comes at a price. Some debts are paid in blood. Others in love. The Price of Redemption is a high stakes billionaire romance packed with emotional intensity, razor sharp tension, enemies to lovers fire, and a second chance romance where trust must be rebuilt from the ashes. Perfect for readers who crave smart heroines, morally complex heroes, slow burn passion, and love that earns its happy ending