As Good A Reason || Succession
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Last published Sun, Dec 28, 2025
'And spite's as good a reason to take his power'
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Almost twenty years ago, Logan Roy had an affair with Elizabeth Ronan's mother, one that ended in her divorce and a number of rather unsavoury news stories.
Nearly two decades later, Elizabeth is in desperate need of a job after returning to New York to be with her sick father.
And then she is faced with an unexpected opportunity.
Shiv Roy is on the hunt for an assistant.
Elizabeth knows that getting involved with the Roy's may very well be her ruin, but as she gets more entangled with them and their world, she can't rid herself of the temptation try and poison the gilded cup of the man who destroyed her family.
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