The Deal We Never Meant to Keep

The deal was supposed to fix a scandal.
Not change everything.

When Isabella Laurent is hired to manage a corporate crisis at the powerful Blackwell Group, she expects political maneuvering, hostile board members, and ruthless media pressure.

What she doesn't expect is Alexander Blackwell.

Cold, controlled, and dangerously perceptive, he built his reputation protecting one of the most influential financial empires in the world. Trust does not come easily to him, and outsiders rarely last long inside the Blackwell orbit.

But the deeper Izzy gets into the crisis threatening the company, the clearer it becomes that the scandal is only the beginning.

Hidden documents.
A photograph that should not exist.
And secrets buried inside the Blackwell family itself.

Working together may be the only way to survive what is coming.

But the line between strategy and attraction is becoming dangerously thin.

And some deals were never meant to be kept.

Empire of Secrets is the first book in a high-tension billionaire romance series filled with corporate intrigue, dangerous alliances, and slow-burn chemistry.