It Kills Me: Betrayal, Book 1

Inheriting a billion-dollar empire should be the crowning achievement of Scarlett's life — until the most infuriating man she's ever met walks through the boardroom door and threatens to burn everything down.

Scarlett has spent years proving herself worthy of her father's ruthless business empire. Now, with the keys almost in her hands, there's one ironclad rule standing between her and everything she's worked for: never mix business with pleasure. It's a rule her father has never broken. It's a rule Scarlett never expected to question — until Axel.

Brilliant, arrogant, and devastatingly magnetic, Axel is the high-stakes distributor brought in to manage the company's most dangerous supply chain operations. He's exactly the kind of man Scarlett knows she should despise. He challenges her authority, ignores her boundaries, and looks at her like he already knows he's winning. The problem is, she can't stop looking back.

What starts as a battle of wills in the high-pressure world of billionaire power plays quickly ignites into something neither of them can control. Their forbidden affair crackles with tension sharp enough to cut glass — but in a world where secrets have deadly consequences, their chemistry may cost them more than just her inheritance.

In this pulse-pounding romantic suspense, Penelope Sky delivers a story where desire is dangerous and the line between enemy and lover is razor-thin. The only question is who gets cut first.