Heartless Heir - HL Packer

In a world ruled by power, control, and blood, the line between enemy and obsession is easily blurred.

A self-taught hacker with a talent for slipping through locked doors, digital or otherwise, Eliza Jenkins makes one catastrophic mistake: she hacks into the wrong system.

Now, forced to work for the very empire she tried to outsmart, Eliza keeps her head down and her code clean. Until she starts digging where she shouldn’t, landing herself squarely on the radar of Damien Wheeler. He’s the cartel heir with a reputation as lethal as it is charming, and he’s being tested.

If Damien wants to inherit his father’s throne, he has to prove that he can control every asset... including the stubborn hacker who refuses to be intimidated by him. Taking Eliza under his wing is supposed to be strategic, and temporary, but Eliza isn’t like the women he’s used to.

Those women he can love and leave without a second thought. Eliza, he can’t. She challenges him and sees the cracks in his carefully crafted armour. When loyalty is tested and secrets unravel, Damien must decide what matters more: the empire he was born to rule... or the woman who hacked her way into his world, and his heart.

Because in the Five Families, betrayal can be dangerous, but love can be deadly.