I knew who I was. Until Alex Hartley burned my world down and showed me who I could be.

I am Victoria Sterling, hotshot corporate M&A lawyer in Manhattan.

I knew what I wanted. I went after it. I had everything—success, power, a family.

I thought I had it all figured out.

Then Alex Hartley happened.

Gorgeous. Reckless. Impossible to resist. She didn't just shake my world—she shattered it.

With a smile that dared me to leap and a touch that made me forget every rule I lived by, she uncovered the parts of me I buried deep.

I wasn't prepared to fall.

I wasn't prepared to want more.

But with Alex, playing safe was never an option.

This isn't just a love story.

This is a surrender to freedom, to the woman who made me come alive.