What the Press Release Hid

She controls the headlines. He uncovers the truth.

Lena Cho is Vardenton Holdings' Head of Corporate Communications. She doesn't spin facts-she curates perception. Her job is to protect the company's story, no matter how messy the reality.

Then a scandalous leak lands on her desk, threatening to torpedo a billion-dollar acquisition.

The journalist behind it? Gideon Thorne.

Lena's graduate-school rival, the one reporter who knows exactly how to dismantle her carefully crafted narratives, and the only man she has spent years pretending to hate.

Gideon has thirteen pages of damning internal documents, and he's ready to publish. The story could break Vardenton. The evidence is undeniable.

Instead of burying him in injunctions, Lena makes a lethal offer: seventy-two hours of controlled, off-the-record access. Let him verify the documents from the inside.

Locked in a crisis bunker together, professional rivalry ignites into an undeniable, off-the-record attraction. But someone inside Vardenton is leaking their every move.

Photographs surface. Reputations burn. And the deeper they dig, the more they realize the truth is not a clean headline-it is a complicated, dangerous mess.

To save her company and her own integrity, Lena must let the one man she cannot control uncover the one thing she has never been able to spin.

Her own heart.

A standalone corporate suspense romance in The Dividends Series.