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Romance | Action Thriller | Mystery | Enemies to Lovers
My 9-5 calls mass murder "act of God."
I'm Elara Voss, forensic investigator at Veridian Global Forensics. We cover up collapsed bridges, bombed resorts, and rewrite truth for billionaires. I took this job to burn it down: three years ago, Veridian killed my sister Lila on a bridge, called it an accident, and got away with it.
The only thing in my way? Kael Rainer.
Ex-Army golden boy, scarred, cold, the man who signs every whitewash I refuse. We hate each other. Fight over every case. Sabotage each other's work. Until I hack his encrypted drive at 2 a.m. and find Veridian's real secret: a death pool.
Billionaires betting $870 million on which disaster kills the most people next. Veridian doesn't just cover them up-we plan them. Lila's name is in the margins. Kael's 10-year-old brother Ethan, dying of cystic fibrosis, is held hostage by the cabal to keep him compliant.
We're both prisoners of the same monsters.
When we're sent to bury proof a ski resort avalanche that killed 53 was a bombing, the cabal traps us under the rubble on purpose: -10°F, no food, no rescue, hit squads hunting us through frozen tunnels.
Now the rival I wanted fired six months ago is the only thing keeping me alive.
We crawl through avalanche chutes, stitch each other's bullet wounds with dental floss, share a threadbare blanket in an abandoned cabin. Hate melts into charged slow burn-stolen tender moments, quiet promises, ride-or-die trust forged in blood and ice. If we make it off this mountain? We tear down Veridian, save Ethan, avenge Lila, and make every billionaire who bet on our deaths pay.
No more lies. No one left behind.
🏷️ Enemies to Lovers · Slow Burn · Forced Proximity · Survival · Corporate Conspiracy · Revenge · Found Family · Happy Ending