He kept her father's death a secret.
Now he might be the only man she can't live without.
Twelve years ago, a rainy night outside a half-built shopping plaza shattered Amelia Carter's world killing her father, crippling her brother, and leaving her family buried under debt and whispered blame. The official story was simple: one too many drinks, one terrible accident, nothing anyone could have done. Amelia has spent her life outrunning that night, reinventing herself in Boston as a crisis strategist who cleans up other people's scandals for a living.
When her firm lands a high-stakes account with Hale Whitford Holdings, the powerful company behind that long-ago construction site, Amelia sees it as a chance to finally dig up the truth. She doesn't expect Lucas Hale: the haunted heir with winter-gray eyes, a witness statement tied to her father's crash, and a quiet intensity that feels like recognition from the first electric handshake.
As Amelia discovers memos, missing reports, and a buried decision that turned negligence into a cover-up, her relationship with Lucas tests every professional, ethical, and personal boundary. He is both the boy whose silence helped destroy her family and the man risking his fortune, legacy, and freedom to put things right.
In a world of boardroom wars, media trials, and secrets that can send men to prison, love becomes the most dangerous battlefield of all. To claim a future together, Amelia must decide what justice really means and whether she can forgive the one man whose truth could finally set her free...or break her all over again.