Leverage

A hotel room in Amsterdam. A three-year secret. And the CFO working exactly twenty-three feet across the glass wall.

Petra is a strategy consultant on Floor 10 of the Cornerstone Building. She runs probability models on everything—except Soren Erenhart. After one nameless, unforgettable night in Europe three years ago, she never expected to see him again, let alone share a corporate floor, a high-stakes boardroom, and a dangerous amount of proximity.

She has spent three years building an infrastructure of avoidance: taking the stairs, skipping the lobby coffee cart, and dodging the charcoal-suited executive whose silent presence commands every room. But a rival consultant is circling her territory, and keeping her distance from Soren is becoming impossible. When their carefully constructed professional boundaries finally shatter in a floor-to-ceiling glass boardroom with the city watching, Petra realizes her risk models were wrong. The visibility is no longer a liability—it's the point.

Some risks are carefully calculated to fail, but this one is built to shatter.