Ruthless Ambition

She built her career on ruthless ambition. She never expected the most powerful woman in the company to become the one person she couldn't resist.

Cassia Voss knows exactly what it takes to survive in a world built for people with family names, money, and connections. She started at the bottom, fought her way up, and has finally become the youngest Vice President in Voss Maritime Holdings' history. Cassia doesn't owe anyone her success, and she intends to keep it that way.

Then Delphine Ashworth-Reid notices her.

Young, wealthy, fiercely controlled, and almost impossible to read, Delphine is the CEO and heiress at the center of the company Cassia has spent years fighting to rise through. When Delphine chooses Cassia to lead a hostile takeover of rival Harrow Atlantic Group, Cassia knows she's been handed the biggest opportunity of her career.

What she doesn't know is why Delphine chose her.

As the two women work late nights and closed-door strategy sessions together, professional tension turns into something far more dangerous. Delphine has spent her entire life surrounded by people who want something from her. Cassia is the first person who seems willing to tell her the truth. But Cassia is hiding a truth of her own.

A decades-old insurance claim leads Cassia into a buried scandal involving the Ashworth-Reid family, a woman named Vivienne Harrow, and a secret that could destroy everything Delphine believes about her past.

And Malcolm Ashworth-Reid, the powerful chairman who has spent decades protecting that secret, will do whatever it takes to keep it buried.

Now Cassia must choose between the career she fought her entire life to build, the woman she is falling for, and the dangerous truth she promised herself she would never reveal.

Because in a world where power is everything, ambition comes with a price.

And sometimes the woman you want most is the one person you can afford to lose least.