He asked the one question nobody above her had ever asked.

Nineteen years as Meridian's Creative Director. An office above the Rhine. Greta Bauer knows which board members lean forward when they lie, and she has never once walked into a quarterly session unsure of the outcome.

Then Anton Sterling requests forty-five minutes of her time. No agenda. No documents. A lawyer who has spent four years building a case against the institution she runs, with one request: eight days inside Meridian's contract archive, under privilege, on her terms.

The board meets in fourteen days.

Enemies to lovers. A boardroom slow burn. A love story that arrives late.

BEFORE YOU START
- Book Four and the finale of The Cold Open Series. A new couple. Stands alone.
- Heat: open door. Steamy, never explicit. Eight chapters before the first kiss.
- Dual POV, first person.
- About 26,500 words, a two-hour read.
- Happily ever after. No cliffhanger. No cheating.
- Releases 3 November 2026 on Kindle and Kindle Unlimited.

ARC readers: all I ask is an honest review, at any star rating, on Goodreads before release and on Amazon on or after 3 November.