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She rules the boardroom with ice in her veins. Her assistant is the only one who knows how to melt it.

On the fifty-fourth floor of Praxis Media Group, power isn't just a metric—it’s a lethal game. As CEO, Merritt Copeland is a terrifying study in angles, absolute control, and unyielding ambition. She crushes corporate rivals before breakfast and expects nothing short of perfection from the machine around her.


Enter Clea Romilly.


Clea is Merritt’s razor-sharp executive assistant, the invisible machinery keeping the multi-billion-dollar empire upright. She anticipates every threat, neutralizes every crisis, and knows how to withstand the Ice Queen’s chilling silences better than anyone else in the building. To the rest of the corporate world, they are a flawless, untouchable unit.


Behind closed doors, it’s a slow-burning war of attrition.


When a high-stakes acquisition brings mounting pressure, the razor-thin line between professional symbiosis and dangerous proximity shatters. Every stolen glance, every calculated touch, and every whispered command pulls them closer to a precipice they can't climb back from. But in a world where weakness is treated as a fatal liability, giving in to the heat could cost them everything they’ve built.


And in Merritt’s world, power is everything—until she realizes she’d burn her entire empire to the ground just to keep Clea close.


"A masterclass in tension, corporate espionage, and slow-burn agony. If you love high-stakes power dynamics, fierce competence, and ice-cold CEOs who fall catastrophically hard, this is your next obsession."