The Senior Partner

<p>A hostile merger turns rivals into allies-until truth threatens everything they built.</p><p>Vesper Vance is a senior associate with a buried ethics breach and a legacy name to protect. A hostile merger swallows her firm and Cassian St. James-her Yale Law rival and the man she never forgave-becomes her boss. He knows her secret. He uses it to force one last case against billionaire Balthazar Thorne a donor darling who treats people like expenses. In marble corridors and gala light every smile hides a threat. Vesper can fight the merger protect the staff who depend on her and survive Cassian's pull-but only if she stops mistaking control for safety.</p><p>He wants obedience. She wants room. Thorne wants silence-now.</p>