Nikole Volkov has spent her life in the shadow of powerful men — the tech genius older brother with ice in his veins, the elite circles of D.C.’s most dangerous minds, and a father who taught her that love is leverage. She’s brilliant in her own right — a rising star in political strategy — but when her work collides with a high-level security breach at Zara Tech, she finds herself entangled with the one man more unreadable than her brother: Noah Reyes, Christian Harper’s fiercely private, sharp-tongued assistant.