He was Fitzwilliam Darcy, tall and handsome in a tux, and surrounded by wealth, power, and beauty. And she was Elizabeth Taylor Bennet, wearing three-year-old yoga pants and a sweatshirt, panting from another run.
Elizabeth Bennet doesn’t need a knight in shining armor. She needs a hundred million dollars and a miracle. A newly licensed clinical social worker at Haven Hospital—a crumbling 1937 landmark tucked between Manhattan's glass towers—she’s taking on City Hall to save the one place that still feels like magic. What she is not looking for is Fitzwilliam Darcy: infuriatingly gorgeous, obscenely rich, and, if the tabloids are to be believed, far better at closing deals than anything else.Darcy has spent years hiding behind his investment firm and one very public humiliation. Then a beer-soaked bachelor party drops him in the path of a woman who couldn’t care less about his money, and who sees straight past his armor to the architect’s soul he inherited from his mother.
She’s sure he’s an arrogant player. He'''s certain she’s the most maddening, magnetic woman in New York. But when their worlds collide over the fate of her beloved hospital, the line between contempt and desire starts to blur.
By the Numbers is a contemporary, sensual Pride and Prejudice variation for readers who enjoy enemies-to-lovers banter, a brooding billionaire with hidden depths, a heroine with brains and backbone, and a slow burn romance leading to a happily ever after for Darcy and Elizabeth.
Genre: Romance