ZERO TRUST ARCHITECTURE (The Dividends Series)

She built her career on one rule: trust no one.
Then the man hired to break her defenses gets locked inside them with her.

Imogen Hale is Vardenton Holdings’ formidable Chief Information Security Officer, the architect of a zero-trust system built to verify every request and grant no one more access than necessary.

Lincoln Croft is the elite red-team auditor Julian Vance hires to test the architecture she believes is airtight.

He is brilliant, infuriating, dangerously perceptive, and very good at getting into places where he has not been invited.

But when a live cyberattack hits Vardenton and a forty-eight-hour containment protocol seals Imogen and Lincoln inside the company’s subterranean security vault, professional rivalry becomes forced proximity.

And the breach is coming from inside.

Someone with legitimate access is manipulating controls, hiding behind executive privilege, and positioning Imogen to take the fall. With billions in proprietary technology at risk, she and Lincoln must unravel the attack before the containment clock expires.

Working side by side changes the equation.

Suspicion becomes respect.
Respect becomes attraction.
And attraction becomes the one vulnerability neither of them knows how to contain.

Because Lincoln is not trying to tear down Imogen’s walls.

He is proving he understands why she built them.

Zero Trust Architecture is a smart, high-tension corporate suspense romance featuring forced proximity, professional rivals-to-lovers chemistry, competence kink, an ice-queen CISO, a rule-breaking red-team auditor, boardroom warfare, insider betrayal, and two fiercely independent adults discovering that trust is not certainty.

It is a choice.

A standalone corporate suspense romance in The Dividends Series.

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