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River Reed doesn't lose in court.

Especially not when the client is family.

When Johnson Petroleum Group launches a fabricated whistleblower attack against Scout Drilling, River knows exactly what it is—corporate warfare dressed up as procedure. She's ready to dismantle it piece by piece.

Then she meets Julian Price.

A private investigator embedded deep inside JPG's legal machine, Julian is everything River should avoid. Charming, compromised, and impossible to read. Trusting him could destroy her case. Not trusting him might be worse.

As forged evidence surfaces and the opposition escalates from legal pressure to outright sabotage, River realizes this fight isn't about winning—it's about survival. Someone is trying to bury the truth, ruin her brother, and take her down with him.

Forced into an uneasy alliance, River and Julian walk a razor's edge between justice and disaster, desire and betrayal. Every move brings them closer to exposure—and closer to each other.