Carter Mason thought her final psychology assignment would be routine—study the city’s recent criminal arrests and mysterious disappearances. She couldn’t have been more wrong. Her investigation leads her to Martins, one of Atlanta’s most powerful law firms, and into the orbit of Sam Martins—enigmatic, commanding, and dangerously magnetic. When Sam offers her a choice: walk away with money or cooperate in private interviews to end her research, Carter makes a decision she can’t fully justify. What starts as a strictly professional arrangement becomes a dangerous game of desire and control. Sparks fly, boundaries blur, and a “strictly business” arrangement turns intoxicatingly personal. The more time she spends with him, the harder it becomes to see him as just a man—or the case as just research. But every secret has a price. And in Sam Martins’s world, the truth could destroy everything… including her heart. A seductive, high-stakes romance where ambition, desire, and dangerous secrets collide.
