No Innocent Heirs

Eva Laurent has been hired to uncover every liability Calder Group buried before its founder can hand the empire to his children. Her independence is already under scrutiny when journalists reveal that her late mother worked at a Calder factory later linked to serious worker illnesses. Dominic Calder, the forty-year-old presumed heir, should be the easiest member of the family to distrust. Instead, he keeps giving Eva access his siblings would rather deny her. Among the records are off-book payments that look suspiciously like theft, while Dominic seems far less interested in protecting his inheritance than in making sure Eva follows the money. Working beside him is dangerous enough. Wanting him is worse. Their growing attraction gives Calder's lawyers another reason to question whether Eva can remain impartial. The deeper she digs, the less this looks like one family hiding one scandal. Someone has been deciding which debts count, which victims deserve acknowledgment, and what the next generation is allowed to inherit. Eva is beginning to see the pattern. The Calders may already know she has.