June Castellanos is twenty-three, seven years into a four-year degree, and three hours late to the most important interview of her life because her mother, slipping deeper into early-onset Alzheimer put her shoes in the freezer. She gets the job anyway.


June takes the $94,000 tech internship at Halcyon Bio for one reason: to keep her family afloat as her mother slips further. She plans to keep her head down, fix bad code, and survive.


Then she meets Rhys Tanaka-Beaumont.


Rhys is Halcyon’s brilliant, notoriously reclusive CEO—a man whose brutal honesty terrifies the company. But when June uncovers a fatal algorithm flaw costing real hospital patients their lives, she confronts the one man who can fix it. Instead of firing her, Rhys brings her into his inner circle.


Working in the shadows of empty boardrooms, their intense technical rivalry turns into an electric, unstoppable attraction.