Terms for Ruining Me (A Dark Corporate Romance and Legal Thriller) by A.J. Thorne

She was hired to dismantle his empire. He engineered her arrival to destroy her mentor. Lilah Somerset is a brilliant, surgical litigator tasked with a massive corporate dissolution. August Rourke is the ruthless CEO whose twelve-billion-dollar media empire she is taking apart piece by piece. But what Lilah doesn't know is that August intended to lose. He has spent two years building an elaborate trap to expose the man who destroyed his father’s life—a man who happens to be Lilah’s trusted mentor. Confined to a glass-walled office building night after night, their adversarial relationship melts into a dangerous, obsessive attraction. As Lilah follows the breadcrumbs August planted in the financial records, she must decide if the truth is worth sacrificing her career—and if the man plotting her ruin is the only one she can trust. Terms for Ruining Me is a dark, slow-burn corporate romance filled with psychological tension, moral ambiguity, and high-stakes legal drama.