The Youngest Partner

Cleo Mbeki just made partner at thirty, the youngest in the firm's history, and her first assignment is the client everyone else has already failed — Alaric Sterling, forty-nine, son of the founder, and the man quietly selling his own firm to a competitor. She's supposed to manage him. She reads the sale memo and does nothing. She has dinner with him and does something worse. By the time the sale is public, she is the only person who knows the whole story, and the only person willing to take the fall for it. Six months of suspension. One bar association inquiry. One man rebuilding a firm to hand back to her. An age gap boss billionaire romance about ambition, ethics, and the difference between being protected and being chosen.