Where the Olives Lean

Seven years ago, the world watched India’s quietest heiress die when her family’s private jet went down over the Arabian Sea. The Devraj family consigned her remaining belongings to the funeral pyre and performed her last rites. The press moved on. Her ruthless father and ambitious brother expanded their media empire, built on the back of her memory. They believed Palakshi Devraj was lost to the sea. They were wrong. Now twenty-nine, Pia is the unshakeable CEO of Vandora Global—a rising power network built in the sharp, cold light of Milan. She owes nothing to the surname that tried to cage her, and even less to the family that traded her future. She has built an impenetrable life where no one knows her real name, and no one gets close. Until a high-level cyber breach penetrates Vandora’s core servers, traced directly back to Devraj Media in Mumbai. Someone in India is looking for her. Or worse—someone knows she survived. Enter Damian Korsak, the unyielding, reserved head of Europe’s most elite private intelligence firm. Cold, methodical, and fiercely protective, Damian doesn't take routine corporate clients. But when he looks at Pia, he sees past her flawless facade to a woman who has survived a war zone—and is hiding an identity worth killing for. To survive the shadows catching up to her past, Pia must make an alliance with the only man clever enough to unarm her defenses. But in a game played between two sovereign empires, the deadliest threat isn't the ghost knocking at her door... It’s learning to trust the man standing in front of it.