Takeover

Claire Anderson never wanted to run a company. She is a widow with three unruly sons, holding together the media business her late husband built, and the first time she meets Tristan Miles it is across a boardroom table where he is calmly explaining how he intends to take it from her. Tristan runs acquisitions for Miles Media and has a reputation as New York's takeover king: when he sets his sights on a company, he gets it. Claire leaves that meeting hating him with every cell in her body.

Then a conference in France puts them in the same room again, and the arrogant executive she swore never to see turns out to be disarmingly charming, unexpectedly funny and entirely too tempting. What began as a hostile bid becomes something neither of them planned for — an older heroine with a family and no room for distraction, and a man who is used to getting exactly what he wants and has decided that what he wants is her.

The Takeover is the second book in T L Swan's Miles High Club series, published by Montlake in August 2020 and reissued by Arndell in 2025. It is a steamy, banter-driven enemies-to-lovers billionaire romance, and reviewers have singled out the sparring between Claire and Tristan and the emotional weight underneath it. It reads as a standalone, though it sits alongside the other Miles brothers' books in the series.