She was sent to audit his books. She found something much worse.
Petra Novák doesn't lose cases. The FBI's best forensic accountant has dismantled three criminal financial operations in five years, and she does it the same way every time: follow the numbers, find the seam, build the case so completely that no one can take it apart.
Meridian Capital should have been straightforward.
Darko Zolotov was supposed to be manageable.
He isn't.
Charming, dangerously intelligent, and far more cooperative than any subject of a federal investigation has any right to be, Darko isn't trying to obstruct her audit. He's trying to help it — because there's something running alongside the Meridian operation that he's been trying to close for eighteen months, something that uses the financial architecture he knows as a shell for something far worse.
Petra follows the numbers. The numbers lead somewhere she didn't expect.
So does Darko.
She doesn't do this. She doesn't get distracted. She doesn't let the subject of an investigation become something she thinks about when she's not working. She's methodical, she's thorough, she builds her cases and she moves on.
But the numbers don't lie. And the data she's been collecting — on the case, on him, on the specific quality of what happens when two precise, careful people stop managing the distance between them — is consistent.
The pattern is stable.
The data is very good.
Claim the Enemy is a full-length dark romance featuring enemies-to-lovers, a morally grey hero who chooses the right side at real cost, a brilliant heroine who catalogues her feelings like evidence, forced proximity, competence as foreplay, and an HEA that's built on fourteen days of two people being completely honest with each other.
Reader Advisory: Contains adult content. Features themes of organised crime, human trafficking (not depicted graphically), and federal investigation. Intended for mature readers.
Petra Novák doesn't lose cases. The FBI's best forensic accountant has dismantled three criminal financial operations in five years, and she does it the same way every time: follow the numbers, find the seam, build the case so completely that no one can take it apart.
Meridian Capital should have been straightforward.
Darko Zolotov was supposed to be manageable.
He isn't.
Charming, dangerously intelligent, and far more cooperative than any subject of a federal investigation has any right to be, Darko isn't trying to obstruct her audit. He's trying to help it — because there's something running alongside the Meridian operation that he's been trying to close for eighteen months, something that uses the financial architecture he knows as a shell for something far worse.
Petra follows the numbers. The numbers lead somewhere she didn't expect.
So does Darko.
She doesn't do this. She doesn't get distracted. She doesn't let the subject of an investigation become something she thinks about when she's not working. She's methodical, she's thorough, she builds her cases and she moves on.
But the numbers don't lie. And the data she's been collecting — on the case, on him, on the specific quality of what happens when two precise, careful people stop managing the distance between them — is consistent.
The pattern is stable.
The data is very good.
Claim the Enemy is a full-length dark romance featuring enemies-to-lovers, a morally grey hero who chooses the right side at real cost, a brilliant heroine who catalogues her feelings like evidence, forced proximity, competence as foreplay, and an HEA that's built on fourteen days of two people being completely honest with each other.
Reader Advisory: Contains adult content. Features themes of organised crime, human trafficking (not depicted graphically), and federal investigation. Intended for mature readers.
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