Three Heirs Want My Vote

Evan Cole is just a risk-control associate at Hawthorne Group—a twenty-five-year-old nobody trying to keep his head down in modern Los Angeles. Then the founder's will turns his life upside down: Victor Hawthorne, the dead patriarch, has left Evan independent command of 11.7% of the family trust's decisive voting rights. For sixty days, he must live among the heirs, evaluate them, and choose who will lead the empire. The candidates could not be more different. Alexander, the eldest, is a force of nature who has spent his life controlling everything and everyone. Noah, the middle brother, is cold, brilliant, and ruthless in boardrooms. Luca, the youngest, is loud, playful, and unapologetically flirtatious—throwing charm at Evan from day one. Forced to move into Hawthorne Manor, Evan becomes the strange, quiet center of a storm. The brothers fight for his vote—but somewhere between an office crisis, a kidnapping, a frame job, and public humiliation, the competition stops being about power. Each of them, in his own way, falls for him. Evan holds his line through it all: the group must go to whoever is truly capable—and his heart belongs to no one but himself to decide. When a hostile capital raid threatens the dynasty, Evan makes his call. He backs Alexander for leadership, and the eldest brother wins the group—only to discover that winning Evan is another matter entirely. Yet as Alexander learns, for the first time in his life, to ask instead of command, Evan opens his door. The man who always decided for others finally learns to respect the one choice that was never his to make.