Power and Poise
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Claudia Solace has been fighting her whole life. When her abusive father dies suddenly in a car crash and leaves her to run New Solace Real Estate, the family company, she finds herself fighting a lot harder. New challenges within the company and within her own home present themselves, and she finds more battles to fight.
With her father's best friend battling her for company rights, New Solace teeters on the edge of collapse and Claudia's sanity barely hangs above the water.
Things change when Vespasian Graecina, CEO and owner of Argentum Properties LLC and mysterious foreign millionaire, steps into New Solace with a deal, his stoicism, and his obsession with Monday lunches. Claudia's world gets weirder and weirder the closer she gets to Vespasian and the more she realizes she doesn't know.
Will she be able to maintain her power and poise to see the end of the war her life has been?
Book One of the "Versipellis: Balanced Instincts" Series
*NOTE* This is a werewolf romance novel. It focuses on Claudia, so most of the book will be less cliche werewolf packs and more office moments.
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