Amara Bennett has never been afraid of a challenge. At twenty-eight, she’s the powerful CEO of Bennett & Co., and she’s determined to win the biggest contract of her career. Unfortunately, there’s one man standing in her way—Adrian Hayes, the arrogant and equally ambitious CEO of her family’s biggest rival. They clash from the moment they meet. But when business forces them closer, rivalry slowly turns into respect, respect becomes friendship, and friendship becomes something neither of them can control. Adrian is the last man Amara should fall for. Yet the more they learn about each other, the harder it becomes to stay apart. Just when they believe they’ve found the future they’ve always wanted, secrets from their past begin to surface. Secrets that threaten their families. Secrets that threaten their love. And a truth so devastating that neither of them could have imagined it. They thought falling in love was the biggest risk they would ever take. They had no idea the past was waiting to tear them apart.