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Avery Bennett moved away to outrun a life that felt too small. At twenty-five, she's back in her childhood bedroom with a faded motivational poster and a graphic design portfolio that needs rebuilding—and her brother's best friend is working a job forty feet from her back door. Noah Carter has been Jake's best friend for almost a decade. He's been in love with Avery for most of it. He's also been very careful, because Jake is the kind of friend who doesn't deserve a betrayal, and Avery is exactly the kind of person worth not ruining things for. Except she's home now. And the careful thing...

He has one rule about the don's daughter: don't want her. He's already failing. Nikolai Voss doesn't make mistakes. Twelve years of military discipline and five more running personal protection for the Marchetti crime family have made sure of that. He doesn't get attached. He doesn't get distracted. He doesn't look twice at women he can't have. Then Serena Marchetti witnesses a murder she was never supposed to see—and he's ordered to contain her. She isn't frightened. That's the problem. Serena has spent her entire life being managed, sheltered, and handled by men who think they know best...

She knows who he is now. It doesn't help. "Find out what Vasin is currently protecting. Not his assets. Something personal." The masks are gone. The parallel worlds have collapsed. Elara knows that her boss and the man at the estate are the same person—and she stayed. Not because of the debt. She made sure he understood the difference. But knowing the truth and trusting the man who hid it are two very different things. Nikolai's instinct is still to protect her by controlling what she knows. And the walls she took down for him? She can put them back up faster than he can explain. Then ...

Her father lost a card game. She's the payout. "Has she agreed to this?" Viktor says she'll understand. She doesn't. Not yet. By day, Elara Voss is the new intern at Vasin Group, proving herself in boardrooms full of men who underestimate her—including her dangerously attentive boss, Nikolai Vasin. By night, she's driven to a private estate outside Seattle, masked and contracted to a man whose voice she almost recognizes, whose rules she negotiated in writing, and whose control is starting to crack in ways neither of them expected. She doesn't know these men are the same person. You know....

She has her name on the door now. He has a decision that will cost him everything—and he makes it without her asking. "How's the girl?" "Still at Vasin Group. Promoted again last month." "Good. Let her settle." Elara Voss is a Senior Analyst with a glass-walled office, a reputation that makes people stop talking when she walks into a room, and the kind of relationship with Nikolai Vasin that's built on wreckage and rebuilt on choice. They're good. Settled in the way that only comes after you've already broken each other and decided to stay. Dominic Rael is about to test exactly how much ...

Elle sait qui il est maintenant. Ça n'aide en rien. — Trouve ce que Vasin protège en ce moment. Pas ses biens. Quelque chose de personnel. Les masques sont tombés. Les mondes parallèles se sont effondrés. Elara sait que son patron et l’homme du domaine sont une seule et même personne — et elle est restée. Pas à cause de la dette. Elle s’est assurée qu’il comprenne la différence. Mais connaître la vérité et faire confiance à l’homme qui l’a cachée sont deux choses très différentes. L’instinct de Nikolai est toujours de la protéger en contrôlant ce qu’elle...

Son père a perdu une partie de cartes. Elle est la mise. — A-t-elle accepté ? Viktor dit qu'elle comprendra. Elle ne comprend pas. Pas encore. Le jour, Elara Voss est la nouvelle stagiaire chez Vasin Group, faisant ses preuves dans des salles de conseil remplies d'hommes qui la sous-estiment — y compris son patron dangereusement attentif, Nikolaï Vasin. La nuit, elle est conduite dans un domaine privé à l'extérieur de Seattle, masquée et liée par contrat à un homme dont elle croit reconnaître la voix, dont elle a négocié les règles par écrit, et dont le contrôle commence ...

Avery Bennett a déménagé pour fuir une vie qui lui semblait trop étriquée. À vingt-cinq ans, la voilà de retour dans sa chambre d'enfant, avec un poster de motivation délavé et un portfolio de graphiste à refaire, et le meilleur ami de son frère qui travaille à douze mètres de sa porte. Noah Carter est le meilleur ami de Jake depuis près de dix ans. Et il est amoureux d'Avery depuis presque aussi longtemps. Il a aussi toujours été très prudent, car Jake est le genre d'ami qui ne mérite pas d'être trahi, et Avery, le genre de personne pour qui il ne faut rien gâcher. Sauf...

When Mason Reed takes a renovation job at Hart Resorts, he expects punch lists and load calculations—not the owner's daughter walking onto his site and telling him his structural plans are wrong. She's right, which is annoying. She's also the resort director, which makes her off-limits. And she says so herself, in that careful professional voice she uses when she's trying to manage something she hasn't fully managed. Sienna Hart built her career in her father's company by doing everything correctly—every decision documented, every boundary maintained. Mason is the first person in years ...

Elle a maintenant son nom sur la porte. Lui doit prendre une décision qui lui coûtera tout — et il la prend sans qu'elle n'ait rien demandé. — Comment va la fille ? — Toujours chez Vasin Group. Encore une promotion le mois dernier. — Bien. Laissez-la s'installer. Elara Voss est une analyste senior avec un bureau aux parois de verre, une réputation qui fait taire les gens lorsqu'elle entre dans une pièce, et le genre de relation avec Nikolai Vasin qui s'est construite sur des ruines et reconstruite sur un choix. Ils vont bien. Stables, de cette manière qui ne vient qu'après ...

Cora Mitchell's research into medieval manuscript transmission is the most serious work she's done in five years of graduate school. The problem: the only professor qualified to supervise it is Dr. Marcus Hale, who she met in a coffee shop on Thursday, spilled a drink on, and discovered was her new instructor by Monday morning. Marcus Hale is the kind of professor who runs seminars that reshape the way students understand their field. He is not the kind of professor who lets personal complications interfere with professional conduct. He is very careful about this. He has to be. They ...

Tessa Romano has spent six months rebuilding professional credibility in an organization where half the staff sees her as the coach's daughter first and the communications director second. When a twelve-second clip of the head trainer goes viral, she finally has the numbers to back the content series she's been designing since she arrived. Luca Conti didn't want to be filmed. He's been clear about that. What he didn't account for is that Tessa is building something genuine—not managed content, but real footage of the work he does—and that working with someone who understands why the ...

He got a marriage contract. She came with secrets she didn't know how to share. To save his family's company, Gabriel Steele agrees to an arranged marriage with Sophia Rothschild—his family's longtime rival. On paper, it's a merger. In practice, it's two highly competent people sharing an apartment and trying to keep their agreement professional. That's harder than it sounds. Sophia is brilliant, private, and not at all what Gabriel expected. She's also carrying information about her aunt's decades-long vendetta against the Steele family—information that could destroy everything they're...

Jake Bennett ran a blind portfolio review. He followed the process. He made the right call. Then he opened the full submission and found that L. West—whose photography portfolio had just earned a unanimous committee vote—was Lily West. Noah's stepsister. Someone he used to know, in a small town that remembers everything, where he is about to spend the next three months working alongside her on the most important festival of his career. He keeps it professional. So does she. The festival is good—the best Marigold Cove has had in years—and the work they do together is genuinely ...

He came to make things right. She's spent three years making sure that's exactly what happens. Sebastian Steele knows his family's company contaminated Millbrook's water supply. He's seen the maps. He knows what the soil tests say. And unlike every other person in his corporate circle, he intends to do something about it—even if it means burning his family's legal strategy to the ground. Emma Thompson has been waiting for a Steele to show up in her town. She just didn't expect one who meant it. As Millbrook's mayor—and the attorney who built the contamination case—Emma has no reason ...

He needed someone to save his company's reputation. He didn't expect her to change his. When Nathaniel Steele's family empire is rocked by a federal investigation, he hires Isabella Chen—the sharpest crisis consultant in Manhattan—to manage the fallout. She's handled corporate disasters before. She knows exactly how to control the narrative, protect the innocent, and navigate rooms full of powerful men who don't want to hear the truth. What she didn't account for was Nathaniel himself. A man who, unlike every other client she's had, keeps choosing accountability over convenience—even ...

Il avait besoin de quelqu'un pour sauver la réputation de son entreprise. Il ne s'attendait pas à ce qu'elle change la sienne. Lorsque l'empire familial de Nathaniel Steele est ébranlé par une enquête fédérale, il engage Isabella Chen — la plus brillante consultante en gestion de crise de Manhattan — pour gérer les retombées. Elle a déjà géré des catastrophes d'entreprise. Elle sait exactement comment maîtriser le discours, protéger les innocents et évoluer au milieu d'hommes puissants qui ne veulent pas entendre la vérité. Ce qu'elle n'avait pas prévu, c'était ...

Il est venu pour réparer les torts de sa famille. Elle, elle a passé trois ans à s'assurer que ce soit précisément ce qui arrive. Sebastian Steele sait que l'entreprise familiale a contaminé l'eau de Millbrook. Il a vu les cartes. Il sait ce que révèlent les analyses de sol. Et contrairement à toutes les autres personnes de son entourage professionnel, il a l'intention d'agir — même si cela signifie réduire à néant la stratégie juridique de sa famille. Emma Thompson attendait qu'un Steele se pointe dans sa ville. Elle ne s'attendait simplement pas à tomber sur un qui soit ...

Lui, un contrat de mariage. Elle, des secrets qu'elle ne savait comment révéler. Pour sauver l'entreprise familiale, Gabriel Steele accepte un mariage arrangé avec Sophia Rothschild — la rivale de longue date de sa famille. Sur le papier, c'est une fusion. Dans les faits, ce sont deux personnes très compétentes qui partagent un appartement et tentent de garder leur accord strictement professionnel. C'est plus difficile que ça en a l'air. Sophia est brillante, secrète, et pas du tout ce à quoi Gabriel s'attendait. Elle détient également des informations sur la vendetta que sa ...

Lui aveva bisogno di qualcuno per salvare la reputazione della sua azienda. Non si aspettava che lei cambiasse la sua. Quando l'impero di famiglia di Nathaniel Steele viene scosso da un'indagine federale, lui assume Isabella Chen, la più brillante consulente di crisi di Manhattan, per gestire le conseguenze. Lei ha già gestito disastri aziendali in passato. Sa esattamente come controllare la narrazione, proteggere gli innocenti e destreggiarsi in stanze piene di uomini potenti che non vogliono sentire la verità. Ciò che non aveva previsto era Nathaniel stesso. Un uomo che, a differenza ...