Milan Moretti and Zara Winslow first crossed paths in law school-two brilliant, ambitious women assigned to the same trial case. Both born to lead, neither willing to yield, their shared hunger for control turned collaboration into competition and tension into something dangerously close to desire. By the end of that case, their passion had curdled into spite.
Years later, Milan is a top prosecutor and partner at one of the city's most prestigious firms-respected, feared, and unshakably in control. Zara, now a rising prosecutor with an impressive win record, enters the same firm determined to claim her own seat at the table, even if it means going through Milan to get it.
The two women are forced together when Milan is assigned a high-profile criminal case-and Zara is appointed as her second chair. With Milan's trusted partner on leave, she has no choice but to face the one person who can match her wit for wit and fire for fire.
What begins as professional tension quickly spirals into psychological warfare-a clash of dominance and restraint where every word, glance, and breath becomes a move in their unspoken game. Both women are irresistibly drawn to the other, yet neither dares to surrender an inch. Milan believes she can control Zara, the way she controls every woman who crosses her path. But Zara's quiet defiance-and the power she holds in her silence-threatens to unmake everything Milan thinks she knows about control.
As months pass and their world tightens under the pressure of the case, attraction and animosity blur. What unfolds is a slow burn of mind and body-a story of power, submission, and the dangerous beauty of losing control.
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