Description

At twelve, Kira Sinclair was exiled to a boarding school that felt more like a training ground for shadows than scholars. Violence, strategy, manipulation—her curriculum was survival. By sixteen, she was on her own, working jobs that taught her more about the world than any classroom ever could. By eighteen, she’d turned a smart investment into quiet financial independence and earned her bachelor's through distance learning.

But that was never the endgame.

Now enrolled in one of the country’s most prestigious MBA programs, Kira walks the halls like a ghost. To the world, she’s just another quiet student. But beneath the surface, she’s playing a much deeper game. One final job stands between her and freedom—a job given to her by a contractor who shares her one true enemy: her father.

Trust is a currency she doesn’t spend lightly. Relationships? Useful, not lasting. And yet… life in Lamburgh is starting to crack her armor. A bakery on a hill, a quiet ally, a brush with chaos—each step pulling her closer to something she told herself she didn’t need.

But ghosts don’t stay hidden forever. Especially when they have unfinished business.