Collateral

Olson Carter doesn't lose.

Not in a Manhattan courtroom. Not in his polished glass office forty floors above the city. Not in the life his parents designed for him-where love is measured in accomplishments and weakness is something you learn to bury with a clean suit and a sharper tongue.

A year before his little sister Sterling's world shatters, Olson is at the top of his game: the youngest partner in his firm, a criminal defense legend in the making, and the kind of man who can talk anyone into believing his version of the truth.

Then he meets Elena Marlowe.

A wrongful-conviction attorney with a file thick enough to ruin him, a smile that never promises mercy, and a habit of testing his patience like it's her favorite sport. Elena doesn't care about his name, his money, or the Carter reputation. She cares about the people Olson has learned to overlook-the ones who can't buy their way out of a headline, the ones swallowed by a system built for men like him.

She comes from love and struggle, built her life from scarcity into something hard-won, and still sends money home to keep her family afloat. And every time Olson tries to shut her out, she pushes harder-until the cracks in his perfect control start to show.

Because this case isn't just about guilt or innocence.

It's about what Olson is willing to sacrifice to win.

And what he'll do when the one person who sees through him... refuses to look away.

Book #2 in the 'Carter' series