The Cold FrontThe Contract isn’t the only thing about to break.Elara Vance is the best "fixer" in the corporate legal world for a reason: she’s cold, calculated, and never lets emotion cloud her judgment. When tech mogul Julian Vane—a man as brilliant as he is ruthless—finds himself at the center of a scandal that could destroy his empire, Elara is dispatched to his secluded mountain estate to scrub the mess clean.She has forty-eight hours to get his signature on a series of iron-clad documents and get out. But the mountains have other plans.As a historic blizzard slams into the Cascades, the power goes out, the roads vanish, and the gates freeze shut. Trapped in a sprawling fortress of stone and glass, Elara and Julian are forced into a proximity that neither of them wanted.Behind closed doors, the professional mask Elara has spent years perfecting begins to slip. Julian is a predator who has never met a boundary he didn't want to push, and Elara is the first woman who refuses to bend to his will. Between high-stakes legal sparring and the primal chill of the storm, a different kind of tension begins to ignite—one that is forbidden, explicit, and dangerous.In the isolation of the storm, they find that the thin line between hatred and obsession is easily crossed.