HER TERMS ONLY

CONTENT WARNINGS: Grief and loss (widowhood), emotional trauma, manipulation and coercion, professional power imbalance, false accusations, gaslighting, mild violence and threats, romantic tension, and fade to black adult romance.

She trusts evidence. He trusts control. Neither is prepared for what the truth demands.

Elena Voss has built her career on discipline, instinct, and the kind of restraint powerful men often mistake for weakness. As a federal investigator, she knows how to read lies, follow money, and dismantle carefully constructed facades.

Marcus Carver is exactly the kind of man she expects to distrust. Charming. Untouchable. Accustomed to walking into a room and owning it.

But when his name surfaces in a case too precise to be simple, Elena begins to see fractures in the story she has been handed. The evidence is convincing. The witnesses are certain. Marcus should fit the crime.

He doesn't.

The deeper Elena digs, the more dangerous the case becomes-and the harder Marcus is to ignore. He challenges her control. She threatens his. And as suspicion gives way to an attraction neither of them can deny, they are drawn into a game neither can afford to lose.

Because someone is lying.

Someone is watching.

And Elena Voss does not break her own rules for anyone.

Until Marcus Carver gives her a reason to question them.