Five weeks before the most important wedding of her career, Claire Bennett opens the bridal suite at Seacliff House and finds her husband with Sloane Mercer—the wife of the investor who controls the future of Claire’s company.

The betrayal is personal. The damage is corporate.

With a celebrity wedding approaching and Arden & Coast on the edge of collapse, Claire must take control of the company she helped create. Grant Mercer has every reason to keep his distance. Instead, the reserved investor becomes the one person who understands exactly what Claire has lost.

As they work side by side to expose the theft and save Seacliff House, professional trust turns into a dangerous attraction—one neither of them can afford to mishandle. But falling for Grant means risking her independence on another powerful man, and Grant’s instinct to protect may cost him the woman he is finally learning not to control.

A steamy, emotionally grounded contemporary workplace romance about betrayal, ambition, and choosing love without surrendering yourself.