Conflicted Hearts

Alexander Knight runs an empire built at the edge of the law, with parts of it reaching into places where power is not accountable to anyone. Anne Sinclair, a journalist who has spent her career chasing verifiable truth, starts investigating him, and the deeper she goes the harder it becomes to tell the criminal parts from the merely ruthless ones. Max presents himself as Alexander's friend. He is carrying an old betrayal and wants Alexander's position for himself. He becomes Anne's informant, feeding her leads and documents, and none of it is given for her benefit. Alexander has a past he believed was buried, and the investigation begins to pull it up. As Anne works, what she feels toward him moves from professional curiosity toward something she cannot manage. Her story runs and it brings him down.