You've been waiting for a man strong enough to hold the reins when the world gets too chaotic—and dominant enough to make you surrender them.
Nora Vance wears her corporate litigation suits like steel armor. As lead defense counsel, she is the only thing standing between her brother's tech startup and a predatory conglomerate. But to escape the suffocating weight of her family's survival, she surrenders her control behind the closed doors of a private, anonymous sanctuary. Locked in the bonds of surrender, she finds freedom in submitting to a mysterious, unyielding stranger.
Barrett Croft is the conglomerate's lead counsel—meticulous, predatory, and undefeated. When Nora faces him in the boardroom, she's ready for a legal war. She isn't ready for him to reach into his pocket and slide the brass key to the bonds he locked around her neck.
He knows her voice. He knows her body. And he has just cleared the room to dictate his terms.
He has the evidence to clear her brother, but the price is signing a private, one-year retention agreement. Under his control, Nora must submit to his rules and accept his corrections in private—while fighting him fiercely in public.
She signs, believing she can play him, steal his files, and win the suit. But Barrett is a master of control who welcomes her rebellion. Every power play she makes, he turns back on her, correcting her defiance and demanding her obedience.
In the boardroom, they are rivals. In his study, she belongs to him. And as the litigation reaches a boiling point, the legal adversary she was determined to defeat becomes her only psychological safe harbor.
Barrett & Nora is the second book in the His Reckoning series—an intense, high-heat enemies-to-lovers opposing counsel romance featuring a possessive dominant alpha hero, a locked collar forced proximity dynamic, and a brilliant heroine who meets her match in the boardroom and the bedroom. A complete, standalone love story with an earned HEA.
Nora Vance wears her corporate litigation suits like steel armor. As lead defense counsel, she is the only thing standing between her brother's tech startup and a predatory conglomerate. But to escape the suffocating weight of her family's survival, she surrenders her control behind the closed doors of a private, anonymous sanctuary. Locked in the bonds of surrender, she finds freedom in submitting to a mysterious, unyielding stranger.
Barrett Croft is the conglomerate's lead counsel—meticulous, predatory, and undefeated. When Nora faces him in the boardroom, she's ready for a legal war. She isn't ready for him to reach into his pocket and slide the brass key to the bonds he locked around her neck.
He knows her voice. He knows her body. And he has just cleared the room to dictate his terms.
He has the evidence to clear her brother, but the price is signing a private, one-year retention agreement. Under his control, Nora must submit to his rules and accept his corrections in private—while fighting him fiercely in public.
She signs, believing she can play him, steal his files, and win the suit. But Barrett is a master of control who welcomes her rebellion. Every power play she makes, he turns back on her, correcting her defiance and demanding her obedience.
In the boardroom, they are rivals. In his study, she belongs to him. And as the litigation reaches a boiling point, the legal adversary she was determined to defeat becomes her only psychological safe harbor.
Barrett & Nora is the second book in the His Reckoning series—an intense, high-heat enemies-to-lovers opposing counsel romance featuring a possessive dominant alpha hero, a locked collar forced proximity dynamic, and a brilliant heroine who meets her match in the boardroom and the bedroom. A complete, standalone love story with an earned HEA.
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