Falling For My Family's Enemy

I'm secretly dating the son of the man who has sworn to destroy my father.

Luke Hartwell, heir to our rival empire, the face of a family feud that has shaped my entire life. Twenty-five years of threats taught me one rule: Hartwells are off-limits.

Then my hotel room flooded during a tech conference in Singapore.

Somehow, I end up in his suite, agreeing to share space with the enemy. Tension thick enough to drown in. 

He helps with my keynote presentation. Looks at me as Elsie, not the enemy. 

We discover the city together, carefully, like two people pretending they aren't already in trouble.

Then we go home and pretend nothing has changed.

Except everything did.

Stolen weekends. Secret phone calls. A relationship that could cost us everything. And when our fathers discover the truth, it does.

Luke won't walk away. I can't ask him to.

But staying together means war with our families, our careers, and everyone we love. 

Our siblings are caught in the crossfire. Our mothers face a choice no one saw coming.

Two empires built on hatred, now targeting the one thing that could end it all.

Us.

They think if they destroy our future, we'll break.

They forgot that some things, once built, cannot be undone.