DEADLY THORN

She was sold at seven years old. Trained for eighteen years. And now she is the most dangerous woman in the room.

Élykia - codename *Deadly Thorn* - feels nothing. Wants nothing. Needs no one. She is a weapon, and weapons don't break.

Her mission: infiltrate Lancaster Global, the polished legal face of Crimson Veil - one of the most ruthless criminal networks in Europe. Get close to David Lancaster, the untouchable CEO. Use him. Expose him. Bring the whole empire down from the inside.

Simple. Clean. Controlled.

But David Lancaster is not like the men she has manipulated before. He doesn't lose his head over a smile or a body. He is cold, calculated, and impossible to read - as if he already knows exactly what she is.

She was built to destroy him.

She never expected him to be her equal.