The Case Against You

Evangeline Brooks has spent years building the career she always wanted. As a defense attorney, she is sharp, stubborn, and relentlessly competitive-especially when it comes to her longtime rival, Noah Carter. She knows how to read people, dismantle an argument, and find the weakness everyone else misses. What she doesn't know how to do is stop analyzing everything.

Then she meets Antonio.

Tall, controlled, and impossibly hard to read, he gives her almost nothing about himself. No last name. No clear answers. Just quiet attention and a presence that somehow makes her lower her guard. For the first time in years, Evangeline lets herself stop thinking like a lawyer and simply feel.
What begins as a chance meeting grows into something private, intense, and far more dangerous than either of them admits. She falls for the man she believes she knows.

Until the day she walks into a courtroom and finds him already seated at the defense table.
Antonio is not Antonio.

He is Luca Antonio Moretti-heir to one of New York's most powerful and secretive organized-crime families, and the client she has just been assigned to defend.

The man she has been falling for is now the man she is sworn to protect.

As the case unfolds, the evidence is thin, the stakes are brutal, and the truth is buried under layers of silence and carefully controlled power. Across the courtroom sits Noah Carter, the one person who knows exactly how Evangeline thinks-and who begins to notice the cracks surrounding Luca, the Moretti name, and the woman defending him.
When Noah uncovers the relationship, everything collides.

Evangeline's career, the trial, and the carefully built walls between her personal and professional life are all put at risk. Forced to confront the question she never expected to face, she must decide what she is willing to protect... and what she is willing to lose.

Because loving Luca Moretti may cost her everything.

And walking away may cost her even more.