The system is secure. The CEO is untouchable. But every fortress has a flaw.
Mia Lowry didn't come back from France just to fix firewalls; she came back to ignite them. At twenty-five, she’s a master of encryption, but her own life is a locked file.
Ready to shed her "good girl" reputation, she walks into Apex Tech with a mission: prove she’s the best in the business and finally catch the eye of the man who’s haunted her dreams since she was a teenager.
Ethan Reed is cold, calculated, and strictly off-limits. As her brother’s best friend and her new boss, he’s the one man she should never touch. He thinks he’s hiring a "little sister" as a favor. He thinks he can keep her at arm's length.
He’s wrong.
When Mia walks into his office, the "girl" he remembers is gone, replaced by a woman who knows exactly how to bypass his defenses.
Every late-night coding session becomes a game of chicken. Every brush of their hands in the boardroom is a spark near a powder keg.
Ethan has spent his life building an empire and maintaining absolute control, but Mia is his the only one vulnerability he never patched, the one risk he didn't see coming.
The launch is approaching, her brother is watching, and the company is at stake.
But as the lines between professional and primal blur, Ethan has to decide: will he protect his reputation, or will he let Mia breach the only thing he has left?
His heart.
