Ivy Williams didn't come to Heartfelt University for drama. She came to pass her classes, chain-smoke her way through the stress, and stay out of trouble. Then she met Professor Sinclair. Cold, condescending, and infuriatingly attractive, Sinclair seems to have made it her mission to ruin Ivy's life one lecture at a time. But Ivy gives as good as she gets-and the more they clash, the more the tension starts to twist into something else. Something neither of them is ready for but both of them want far too badly. Sharp words turn into slow glances. Power plays turn personal. And soon, the only thing more dangerous than their rivalry... is what might happen if it stops. [wlw]

Two powerful women. One high-profile murder case. And a contract that was never meant to feel this intimate. Milan Moretti is an untouchable, wealthy and feared top prosecutor in Chicago who dominates courtrooms by day and, by night, exercises a far more private kind of control over women who crave it. She does not lose. She does not bend. She does not get attached. Until Zara Winslow crashes back into her world. Zara is brilliant, defiant, and the only woman who's ever stared Milan down and made her pulse race with something darker than victory. Her mirror. Her challenge. Her most dangerous weakness. Forced to work together on a high-profile murder case crawling with media attention, political pressure, and hidden agendas, their rivalry ignites into something darker. A binding agreement. A private contract where obedience and defiance become currency, where punishment is given, desire is calculated, and control is never free. This isn't love. It's obsession. It's psychological warfare disguised as consent. As the case barrels toward and through trial, the lines between strategy and obsession begin to blur. Secrets surface. And the question becomes less about who will win the case and more about who will break first. Some contracts are meant to protect. Some are meant to bind. And once you're bound and in her hands... there is no safe way out. A story about a murder trial, two women who mistake control for safety and discover desire is far more dangerous, and a contract that binds far deeper than ink.