{"product_id":"2940196073267","title":"The Heir's Ransom (Fractured Empires, #2)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShe was hired to investigate him.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eHe knew it before she walked through the door.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eHe let her in anyway.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZara Mehta does not make mistakes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe is twenty-six, forensic, and exactly as dangerous as the companies who hire her to expose other people's secrets deserve. She has spent three years building a case against Voss Global's darkest subsidiary — quietly, methodically, alone. She has a file. She has evidence. She has a name pencilled in a margin that connects a weapons-patent in 2003 to a jetty in Pune to a death her family was told was an accident.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe does not make mistakes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe is about to make Ronan Voss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRonan Voss has spent his entire adult life being the wrong brother. Too loud. Too charming. Too drunk at the wrong dinners. What nobody in his family has understood — what nobody was supposed to understand — is that every fire he has started has been deliberate. Ronan Voss has been, for two and a half years, hunting the same monster Zara is hunting. From the opposite end of the same maze.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe has also, for eleven months, been watching her coming.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe has also, for eleven months, not had a drink.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe is, at eight-twenty-seven on a Tuesday morning, going to let her walk into his boardroom and believe she has the advantage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is the last generous thing he will do for a very long time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat does it cost a woman to trust a man who has been lying to her since before they met?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat does it cost a man to love a woman who was sent to destroy him — and choose her anyway?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat is written, in pencil, in the margin of a file that connects two families across three continents and twenty-five years?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat happened on a jetty in Pune at six-fifty-three in the morning — and who, in a grey flat above a Geneva bookshop, has been waiting for someone brave enough to come and hear the answer?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnd what does the engraved Z on the inside of an emerald ring mean — when the man who had it sized knew her hand from a photograph eleven months before she arrived?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Book\u003c\/strong\u003e is the  darker and  devastating and completely readable as a standalone. It is an  a fake engagement that becomes the realest thing either of them has ever done, and a hero who is quietly, daily, choosing sobriety and love in a genre that almost never asks its men to do either.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a soft love story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a forensic one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo people. One maze. The same monster at the centre of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd a ransom that was never going to be paid in money.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Crimson Veil Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48078761197809,"sku":"2940196073267","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/2940196073267_p0.jpg?v=1776976287","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940196073267","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}