The first time Elara Voss walked into Damien Kane's office, she watched him shoot a man dead and straighten his cufflink in the same breath.The second thing he did was slide a contract across his desk with her name already on it.She had come to confront him. To demand answers. To make him pay for destroying her father's company, burying her family in debt, and reducing everything she had ever known to rubble. She had a speech prepared. She had her anger ready.What she was not ready for was him.Cold. Ruthless. Obscenely powerful. Damien Kane does not negotiate, does not apologize, and does not lose. He has spent seven years hunting the person responsible for the death of the only woman he ever loved and every single thread of that investigation leads back to one name.Elara's father.The deal is simple. She moves into his penthouse. Works as his personal assistant for twelve months. In exchange he clears every cent of the debt and keeps her family alive.What the contract does not cover is the way he watches her. Like she is something he has already decided to keep. Like the twelve months is not a business arrangement but a countdown to something she is not prepared for.Elara tells herself she hates him. She tells herself the heat she feels every time he enters a room is fear and nothing else. She tells herself she will survive this, sign off on the last day, and walk away clean.But Damien Kane did not build an empire by letting go of things that belong to him.And somewhere between the secrets, the danger, the lies her own father buried, and the way Damien says her name like it costs him something, Elara stops being sure she wants to walk away at all.This story starts with a gunshot and a contract. It ends with two people so tangled in each other there is no clean way out. And everything in between will make your pulse race, your breath catch, and your screen impossible to put down.The tension builds slowly. The heat builds slower. And when it finally breaks it will ruin you for every other story you have ever read.Then the truth about Lydia comes out.And everything burns.