Surrogate To A Coporate Savage

The last person Kyomi Rivers expects to see when she signs up for a surrogacy program is the one man she's spent years trying to forget.

Kyomi is no stranger to hard choices. With eviction looming, a little brother depending on her, and a mother battling addiction, she needs money fast. When a high-paying surrogacy arrangement lands in her lap, it feels like the answer to her prayers—straightforward, professional, and completely drama-free. She should have known better.

Yasiah Holt built his empire by being ruthless, calculated, and emotionally untouchable. In the cutthroat world of corporate power, feelings are liabilities he simply can't afford. But when a multimillion-dollar deal requires him to present the image of a family man, he agrees to a surrogate arrangement without hesitation. That decision gets a lot more complicated when his surrogate turns out to be a woman from his past—one he never quite managed to get out of his system.

Now they're bound together by contract, proximity, and a history neither of them wants to acknowledge. Kyomi tells herself this is business. Yasiah tells himself the same thing. But shared space has a way of unraveling carefully constructed walls, and the tension simmering between them refuses to stay professional.

Set against a backdrop of Black women's fiction and interracial romance, this story asks whether two people who once hurt each other can build something real—or whether some histories are just too complicated to rewrite.