A Spicy Romcom Series

The Auction
Algorithm
Series

A control-obsessed billionaire, a PR strategist who rewrites his rules, and the one algorithm he cannot run: her. A grumpy green-energy genius, a media coach who turns his silence into spectacle, and the one equation he got catastrophically wrong: protecting her. He built a fortress to protect everyone. He never built a door for her. Now he has to run.
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The Series

The Books

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Book One

The Auction Algorithm

A control-obsessed billionaire, a PR strategist who rewrites his rules, and the one algorithm he cannot run: her.

When a viral dressing-room leak exposes Julian Vance to the world, the last thing the control-obsessed algorithm architect needs is a PR strategist dismantling his schedule — but that is exactly what he gets. At sixty-eight degrees, the world makes sense. Then Winston Carmichael issues an ultimatum: submit to a charity bachelor auction and a fabricated romance campaign, or lose forty million dollars. Enter Chloe Jenkins — and every variable he had no equation for.

Fake Dating Grumpy × Sunshine Billionaire He Falls First Public Spectacle
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Book Two

The Engagement Equation

A grumpy green-energy genius, a media coach who turns his silence into spectacle, and the one equation he got catastrophically wrong: protecting her.

A leaked audio clip. A press conference that destroys everything. And an engineer who thinks martyrdom is the same thing as love. Arthur Sterling does not do cameras — until the board threatens to freeze his hydrogen programme. Paired with media coach Penelope Hayes, he discovers that chemistry cannot be edited out in post. When a recording detonates both their careers, he is prepared to sacrifice everything. She is not prepared to let him.

Fake Relationship Enemies to Lovers Public Scandal Sacrificial Hero Grand Gesture
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Book Three

The Publicity Protocol

He built a fortress to protect everyone. He never built a door for her. Now he has to run.

The last founder standing. The only one who hasn't been forced onto a stage. Harrison Cole built his world at sixty-two degrees: controlled, silent, and safe behind biometric blast doors. Then Gemma Rossi commandeers his server aisle for event staging crates and is entirely unmoved by his protocols. When a Level Five cyberattack strikes and Harrison's instinct takes over — seal everything — he discovers some variables become load-bearing without him noticing.

Reclusive Billionaire Forced Proximity Opposites Attract Redemption Arc City Chase Confession
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The Universe

The Vanguard World

Three founders. Three fortresses. One theatrical board chairman who dismantled all of them — for their own good.

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The Vanguard Initiative

Austin's most prestigious — and most theatrical — tech incubator. Glass boardrooms, a living moss wall atrium, and a board chairman who treats PR mandates as art form. Forty million dollars in funding hangs over every decision made within its walls.

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Austin, Texas

Congress Avenue billboards. The Pecan Street Festival. Four Seasons ballrooms at seventy-four degrees. The city that witnesses every viral moment and every grand gesture — and is entirely unmoved by billionaires trying to stay private.

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The Founders' Fortresses

Julian's penthouse at 68°. Arthur's subterranean lab sealed with pneumatic doors. Harrison's biometric blast doors at 62°. Three men who built perfect, temperature-controlled systems for keeping the world out. Each system failed within weeks of a woman walking through the door.

The Couples

Meet the Founders

Book One
Julian Vance & Chloe Jenkins
Algorithm Architect  ×  PR Strategist

He runs his penthouse at sixty-eight degrees and his life like the healthcare algorithm he's building to save it. She bypasses security desks, rewrites calendars, and introduces a variable he has no equation for.

Their Match

"He calculated every variable but her. She deleted his schedule and wrote him a better algorithm."

Book Two
Arthur Sterling & Penelope Hayes
Green-Energy Engineer  ×  Media Coach

He built hydrogen fuel cells in a subterranean lab where no one could reach him. She turned his silence into spectacle — and refused to let him fall on the sword he'd already prepared for her sake.

Their Match

"He thought martyrdom was the same thing as love. She showed up to the press conference anyway."

Book Three
Harrison Cole & Gemma Rossi
Network Architect  ×  Event Coordinator

He has biometric blast doors and pale blue eyes and absolutely no room for event staging crates in his server aisle. She is vibrant, logistically brilliant, and entirely unmoved by his protocols.

Their Match

"He built a fortress to protect everyone. She left. He ran through the city to get her back."

The Catalyst

Winston Carmichael

Board Chairman — The Vanguard Initiative

Three-piece velvet suits. A silver-tipped cane. An unerring instinct for what reclusive men need most — which he delivers exclusively via public humiliation. Winston Carmichael is not a villain, exactly. He believes wholeheartedly in the Vanguard Initiative and the founders he has coerced into spectacle. He has simply never found a problem he couldn't solve with a press event, a mandatory PR campaign, or a charity bachelor auction. The most infuriating thing about him is that he is never wrong about what they need. He just has a terrible method of delivery.

The Author

Molly Hale

Molly Hale writes steamy contemporary romance about complicated men who build perfect systems to avoid feeling anything — and the women who dismantle them from the inside out.

Her debut series, The Auction Algorithm, follows three reclusive tech billionaires through the Vanguard Initiative's most theatrical season on record. All three books are complete and available now.

She believes firmly in grand gestures, earned happy endings, and the narrative power of a man who finally, spectacularly, runs.

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