Sweet Surrender by Lauren Hart

What if surrendering the million was the only way to win?

Barra Jones should have known better than to return to Outlast Her. She already survived the lies, the hunger, the brutal challenges, and the complicated glory that came with winning Season Five. She walked away with the title, the money, and a broken heart she has been pretending doesn’t still ache.
Then Allie Chen, a gallery owner, enters the game with expensive taste and a dangerous mouth. She is wildly unprepared for life without air-conditioning. Allie didn’t come to Outlast Her to chase Barra Jones. She came to prove every woman in her book club wrong and win the million dollars she was told she’d never survive long enough to touch.
Allie was supposed to be one reckless mistake at a wedding. A one-night distraction Barra could bury somewhere between the bourbon and the bathroom stall. But between secret advantages, shifting alliances, rain-soaked nights, and heat-filled trysts in the jungle, both women find themselves wanting something far more tempting than victory.