When the truth isn't the best answer & duty must come before love... Alexis-Jeovonni"A.J." Tenetti: attorney, CEO, master manipulator, must make what oftentimes the unpopular choice. She is the most prolific legal mind of her time. Her mind sees what others' can't, bending people and circumstances to her will. Elliot"Alan" Quillen, vice president of Searlington Realty, is running from his past, hiding from pain. Cast aside by his heartless family, he refuses to be manipulated by anyone ever again. All he wants is peace and solitude. His goal seems within reach until a fated meeting with A.J. Tenetti leaves himangry, frustrated, and burning with desire. When danger cloaks her like the night and she refuses to let him in; Alan has to make a choice. If he's going to master the master he has to either follow her rules or create his own. She was born to conquer a nation; he was made to conquer her... Willthey continue to battle each other, join forces against A.J.'s enemies, or willthey realize that her power coupled with his privilege will equal the ultimatepleasure? Winner: 2016 Wisconsin Romance Writers "Write Touch" Award for Contemporary Midlength Novel. 18 +This book contains explicit language and detailed descriptions of sexual acts.Reader discretion is advised.