Her eyes are ice. Her mouth is fire.The moment I step into Victoria Lane’s office, the temperature drops—then spikes. She looks at me like she can see straight through my clothes, straight through my defenses, straight into the parts of me I’ve never let anyone touch.Victoria Lane is the woman everyone fears, worships, or wants to be ruined by. The infamous Ice Queen CEO with her sharp suits, ice-blue gaze, and red lips that could command an entire boardroom—or destroy a woman’s self-control with a single curve.I know better than to want her.She’s my boss. My risk. My undoing.But every time her hand brushes mine—by accident, by intention, by need—the air crackles. My pulse stutters. And the powerful woman who never lets anyone close suddenly lets me see the heat simmering beneath all that frost.As her newest protégé, I’m pulled into a world of luxury, pressure, and whispered secrets… and into a desire that grows more dangerous by the day. She tests me. Challenges me. Tempts me. Until wanting her isn’t a mistake anymore—it’s inevitable.Then comes Paris.One night, one bed, one kiss that turns into far too much. The Ice Queen melts, and I burn. She tastes like power and surrender, like the kind of pleasure you don’t survive unchanged. And once I have her—once she lets me have her—I can’t forget the way she said my name.But our night in Paris ignites a scandal we can’t outrun.Back in New York, the world wants to ruin us. Whispers turn into threats. Enemies sharpen their knives. Lane Innovations trembles under the weight of our desire, and Victoria’s empire—and her heart—hangs in the balance.Was Paris just an escape…or the start of something real?She’s forbidden. She’s dangerous. She’s everything I swore I wouldn’t fall for.But I’ve tasted her now—and I refuse to let the world tear us apart.Secrets. Power. Pleasure.Can love survive when the whole world is watching us burn?