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Kelly Leonard is Executive Director of Learning and Applied Improvisation at The Second City, where he has worked for over three decades. Tom Yorton is a former CEO of The Second City Works, the business solutions division of The Second City, and a veteran of corporate marketing and communications.
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Terms and Conditions
What happens when a man who builds billion-dollar empires tries to write a contract for love? In Terms and Conditions, Lauren Asher turns a familiar marriage-of-convenience premise into an emotional, high-stakes romance about ambition, grief, family wounds, and the terrifying vulnerability of being truly seen. The novel follows Declan Kane, a ruthless corporate heir bound by his grandfather’s will to marry and produce an heir before claiming his place as CEO, and Iris, his dedicated assistant, who agrees to a fake marriage that quickly becomes far more real than either of them expected. What begins as a practical arrangement full of rules, deadlines, and emotional distance evolves into a story about healing, trust, and the choice to love beyond obligation. Asher stands out in contemporary romance for combining addictive chemistry with sharp emotional insight, glamorous settings, and deeply human characters. Terms and Conditions matters because beneath its luxurious, romantic fantasy lies a recognizable truth: the hardest promises to keep are rarely written on paper—they are the ones we make with our hearts.
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A contract can’t control the heart
One of the most compelling truths in Terms and Conditions is that people often create rules to avoid emotional risk, only to discover that intimacy ignores carefully drafted boundaries. Declan Kane begins the novel believing life can be managed like a business deal. If he follows the terms of his gr...
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Ambition often hides unhealed emotional wounds
Success looks impressive from the outside, but Terms and Conditions asks a sharper question: what is driving that hunger to achieve? Declan is disciplined, powerful, and relentlessly focused on becoming CEO. At first, his ambition appears admirable, even inevitable for a man raised in a wealthy, dem...
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The best romance is built on observation
Grand declarations are memorable, but Terms and Conditions makes a quieter argument: love is most convincingly expressed through attention. Iris and Declan do not fall for each other simply because they are forced into close proximity. Their bond deepens because they begin to notice one another with...
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Power means little without emotional safety
Terms and Conditions is filled with wealth, status, luxury, and corporate influence, yet the novel repeatedly demonstrates that none of these things can replace emotional safety. Declan has power in almost every public sense. He is rich, respected, and positioned to inherit immense authority. But in...
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Grief reshapes love in unexpected ways
Beneath the banter, tension, and contractual setup, Terms and Conditions is also a story about grief—how it lingers, distorts behavior, and influences the way people love. Declan’s emotional rigidity is not merely a personality trait. It is tied to losses and family dynamics that have taught him to ...
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Family legacies can become emotional prisons
Few forces shape adult choices more powerfully than family expectations, and Terms and Conditions makes that reality impossible to ignore. Declan’s life is heavily influenced by the Kane family legacy, especially the conditions tied to inheritance, leadership, and proving oneself within a dynastic s...
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About Lauren Asher
Kelly Leonard is Executive Director of Learning and Applied Improvisation at The Second City, where he has worked for over three decades. Tom Yorton is a former CEO of The Second City Works, the business solutions division of The Second City, and a veteran of corporate marketing and communications.
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Kelly Leonard is Executive Director of Learning and Applied Improvisation at The Second City, where he has worked for over three decades. Tom Yorton is a former CEO of The Second City Works, the business solutions division of The Second City, and a veteran of corporate marketing and communications.
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