Marcus Cole doesn’t lose. Not deals, not arguments, not people. He rebuilt his family’s airline empire from the ashes of his father’s failures and made sure the entire world knew his name meant power. Then Zara Ellis walked into his boardroom and took it all away in under an hour. She’s the lawyer sent to kill his biggest acquisition and the woman holding a secret buried deep in his family’s past, one that could destroy everything he’s built. He doesn’t know why she hates him. He doesn’t know what she’s planning. He definitely doesn’t know that hours later, drowning his fury in a bar on the other side of the city, he’ll end up in her bed without either of them realizing who the other one is. Now Marcus is caught between the empire he’s sworn to protect and the one woman capable of burning it all down, the same woman he can’t stop thinking about. Desire becomes surrender. Some secrets cost everything. Some women are worth the fall.