Lilian James didn't get hired. She got sent.

Eight years ago, the Vantage Group's falsified safety records put her father in a wheelchair and buried her family's business under a settlement that came with a gag order instead of an apology. She's spent every year since becoming exactly qualified enough to walk back through their front doors with a clipboard, a false surname, and one goal: find the paper trail that finally holds them accountable, on the record, where no lawyer can bury it again.

She didn't plan on the new CEO trying to help her do it.

Griffin Vantage inherited a company built on his father's lies and has spent eighteen months trying to dismantle them one quiet correction at a time — without tanking the jobs of four hundred people who trusted his name. He requested this audit. He wants the truth found. He just doesn't know the woman finding it has spent a decade rehearsing what she'll say when she finally gets to watch his company burn.

The trouble is, Griffin isn't what she came for. He's transparent when he could lie. He listens when he could posture. And the longer they're locked into warehouse floors, late-night file rooms, and one storm-stranded night with nowhere else to go, the more Lilian has to reckon with a fury that was never really about him — and a heat between them that has nothing to do with revenge at all.

She came to take everything from the Vantage name. She never expected to want to keep one part of it.

Steamy, emotionally gripping, and slow-burning toward a reckoning neither of them saw coming — this is a story about what happens when the person you came to destroy turns out to be the one person willing to help you get free.

Tropes: Enemies-to-Lovers, Revenge Romance, Forced Proximity, Protective Hero, Workplace Romance, Slow Burn