Elise Harper was never supposed to be here.
She was an artist-an observer. She sketched faces in courtrooms, recorded events that weren't hers to alter, and lived a life comfortably removed from the world of power brokers, corporate empires, and quiet wars fought in boardrooms instead of battlefields.
Then she picked up a silver pen.
Now, her name is being spoken in places it shouldn't be. By people who don't make offers. They make acquisitions.
Thrust into a world where power is just another asset to be traded, Elise finds herself entangled in negotiations where the stakes aren't money-they're control. Everyone wants something from her. A signature. A deal. A surrender. But Elise isn't sure what's worse-the fact that they see her as a resource, or the fact that they might be right.
The most powerful people in the world are playing a game she doesn't understand. But here's the thing about games-when you don't know the rules, you don't have to follow them.