Julie Berg has spent her career learning how money lies. A senior litigation associate in New York, she reads fraud like other people read faces — the shell companies, the offshore loops, the numbers that don't want to be found. When a new case — Whitmore Group v. Castellan Capital — lands on her desk, it takes her a week to know that someone in the chain is moving money that shouldn't exist.

It takes her less time than that to understand she should stay away from the man who can prove it.

Thomas Swanson sits closer to the crime than to the law — a source, not a suitor, the kind of contact that ends careers and worse. Julie has a precise legal name for what he is: a conflict of interest. She also has a good man at home who has done nothing to deserve what she's about to do. Every meeting with Thomas is supposed to be the last one. None of them is. The further she follows the money, the less she recognizes the woman following it.

Then Thomas's control slips, and she sees what he is when the surface gives way.

By the time the case closes, Julie has lied to the people who trust her, buried part of what she found, and stepped over a line she can't step back across. Some breaches you can litigate. This one she'll carry.

MATERIAL BREACH is a dark, sensual legal thriller — a forbidden affair wrapped around a financial-crime investigation, with a morally gray heroine and an ending that refuses to tidy itself up. High heat, explicit on-page content. Contains infidelity. Standalone. Not a traditional HEA.

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