HER

Power was never meant to look like her.

Alarie Lavigne did not inherit her authority. She carved it out-quietly, ruthlessly, and at great cost. When she takes control of the North Group, she steps into a world designed to resist women like her, where respect is withheld, grief is considered weakness, and survival demands precision.

Behind her composure is loss she has never been allowed to mourn. Behind her success is a system waiting for her to fail.

Boardrooms become battlegrounds. Old alliances turn hostile. Men who mistake proximity for ownership circle, convinced she will eventually break. She doesn't. She adapts.

As the pressure mounts and a powerful figure from her past threatens to return, Alarie must decide how far she is willing to go to protect what she has built-and what she is willing to burn to remain standing.

Those closest to her begin to change under her influence. Not because she softens, but because she refuses to shrink.

This is not a story about romance.
It is a story about a woman who refuses to be palatable, refuses to be forgiven for her ambition, and refuses to disappear-
even when the world insists she should.