He’s the king of the boardroom. She’s the ghost in his machine. Alaric Sterling doesn't have a personal life—he has an algorithm. Every move is calculated, every asset is controlled. His new executive assistant, Vespera Thorne, is the perfect cog in his machine. She’s quiet, lethal in her efficiency, and utterly invisible. But Vespera is not who she claims to be. She is the anonymous hacker who has been dismantling his billion-dollar legacy, one encrypted byte at a time. Her mission is simple: destroy the man who destroyed her family. But when the line between business and pleasure disappears, she finds herself trapped in a trap of her own design. Alaric is obsessive, possessive, and—most dangerously—he’s falling for the woman who’s trying to ruin him. As the corporate war reaches a breaking point, Vespera realizes one terrifying truth: She didn't just break into his files. She broke into his bed. And Alaric Sterling is not a man who lets his secrets—or his women—go. The game is rigged. The stakes are everything. And the assistant is about to run the show.