She killed a man at seventeen to save her mother. Watched him stop breathing from across the room and felt nothing but relief. She buried it, built a life on top of it and told herself it was over. Then she walked into Kingston Enterprises on a Monday morning, took a job on the fortieth floor and met the man who had the video. Max Kingston is not the kind of man who asks for things. He acquires them. And from the moment Ava Hart walked into his office he decided she was something he intended to have with or without her cooperation. The blackmail was convenient. What was underneath it was something neither of them had planned for. Now their parents are married. Claire is back with information she shouldn't have. And Ava is standing in the middle of a situation that started as an arrangement and became something she has no name for and no clean way out of. She thought becoming his stepsister would be the line he wouldn't cross. She was wrong. She thought the video was the only thing keeping her there. She was wrong about that too.