Crude Intentions

Before the suits, there was just the dirt.Ten years ago, Cade Mercer was nobody—just another roughneck's son with too much ambition and a chip on his shoulder the size of Texas. He was hustling low-level land leases, desperate to claw his way out of the poverty that killed his father.Sterling Cross was the golden Prince of the Permian, fresh out of the Ivy League and suffocating under the thumb of...