She thought she'd buried the past with him in it.

But when billionaire investor Theo Hawthorne offers to buy out the struggling nonprofit Lena Morales built from the ground up, the wounds she thought had healed rip wide open.

Theo was the golden boy of her childhood nightmares—rich, entitled, and cruel in a way only privileged boys could afford to be. Now he's grown, sharper in a thousand different ways, and claiming this is just business. But Lena knows better.
This is war.

What begins as sabotage and courtroom sparring turns into something far more dangerous—shared memories, stolen glances, and tension that threatens to combust.

But forgiveness doesn't come easy when the pain is personal. And neither of them is ready to admit that maybe what's grown between them was never really hate at all.

Enemies to lovers. Billionaire meets backbone. Pain meets healing.
And love blooms... in spite of them.