The Rule We Break

Maya Bennett has one rule when it comes to powerful men: never let one decide her future.

Alexander Sterling has built his entire life around another rule: never lose control.

He's the brilliant, infuriating CEO of Sterling Collection. She's the strategist hired to save the brand he refuses to believe is broken.

From their first meeting, they clash. Maya thinks Alexander is arrogant, controlling, and dangerously convinced that money can solve everything. Alexander thinks Maya is reckless, impossible, and far too good at seeing through him.

Then a six-month project forces them into the same rooms, the same flights, and eventually the same dangerous secret.

One argument becomes attraction.

One kiss becomes a choice.

And the man Maya promised herself she would never trust becomes the one person she can't seem to stay away from.

But when someone begins using Maya's identity to threaten Alexander's company, the line between professional rivalry and something far more dangerous disappears.

Alexander wants to protect her.

Maya refuses to be protected at the cost of her independence.

Because falling in love is one thing.

Trusting someone with the power to change your life is something else entirely.

And sometimes the hardest rule to break isn't the one that keeps you apart.

It's the one that keeps you from letting someone in.