I Will Burn You. The Reckoning, #1

SOME FIRES ARE NEVER ACCIDENTS. SOME TRUTHS ARE NEVER FORGIVEN. He told her he'd take her apart. He didn't say he'd fall in love doing it. Twelve years ago, a fire took everything Alec Schmidt loved. The investigator who closed the case in nine days was Warren Krupp. Nobody believed the eight-year-old boy who said he saw a man at the door. Alec never stopped believing himself. He spent twelve years turning grief into a weapon, waiting for the one legal clause buried in his family's old business dealings that would finally hand him everything Warren Krupp left behind. Now Warren is dead, and his daughter is in his place. Sarah Krupp spent her life building walls.
Polished. Controlled. Untouchable. She never expected the man who came to take her company apart to be the first person who ever saw the crack underneath. I take things apart, he told her. Slowly. Seam by seam. He meant it as a threat. What starts as revenge becomes an uneasy alliance. What starts as an alliance becomes a war neither of them can survive alone, because the fire wasn't an accident, the file was never actually closed, and someone has spent thirty years making sure two families destroyed each other instead of the truth. Sarah's father knew.
He was too afraid to say it out loud. Alec isn't afraid of anything anymore, except losing her. FIRE REVEALS EVERYTHING. LOVERS DESTROY EVERYTHING ELSE. I Will Burn You is a dark, enemies-to-lovers romance with a possessive hero, a heroine who stops hiding her real self, a murder conspiracy that goes back three decades, and a vow that starts as a threat and ends as forever. Book One of The Reckoning Trilogy. Content note: This book contains explicit sexual content, references to violence and past trauma, and themes of grief and obsession.
Intended for readers 18+.