I Just Want to Be a Normal CEO

Alexander Cross once negotiated peace between warlords with a gun to his head.
Now he’s negotiating coffee budgets and quarterly reports.

After retiring from black-ops under the codename Ghost One, Alex wants nothing more than a quiet, civilian life. But when a failing defense-tech company hires him as a last-minute executive, his old instincts return to haunt the boardroom. Deals become missions. Mergers feel like hostage rescues. And competitors? Just another battlefield with better suits.

While his team sees a calm, brilliant CEO, only his COO, Claire Hartmann, notices the soldier beneath the smile — a man still wired for war but trying to live for peace.

Armed with logic, loyalty, and absurdly overqualified combat reflexes, Alex must lead Apex Dynamics Group through corporate espionage, government contracts, and enemies who don’t just compete — they kill.

He survived the battlefield.
Can he survive the office?