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CROSS - EXAMINATION

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Zara Bennett has spent her entire adult life outrunning a surname that was once synonymous with disgrace. After her father’s law firm collapsed in a corruption scandal that left their family in ruins, she clawed her way back to the top alone brilliant, disciplined, untouchable. At twenty-nine, she becomes the youngest woman appointed Queen’s Counsel, feared in London’s courts for her surgical precision and fearlessness before billionaires who think their money is a shield. One of those billionaires is Damon Huxley, media king, tabloid emperor, and a man who has built an empire on influence, secrets, and charm sharp enough to cut bone. He’s used to shaping narratives until Zara dismantles one of his. When she takes on a whistleblower’s case and sues Huxley Media for defamation, she becomes the first person to publicly challenge him and win. He retaliates the only way he knows how by leaking personal secrets about her client, pushing Zara into a fury unlike anything she’s ever felt. She corners him in a live TV debate, exposing his tactics before millions. He watches her walk off that stage like a flame he suddenly can’t control. That night, fate traps them together again at an elite political dinner hosted by the Prime Minister. The room freezes when they lock eyes. The air becomes hazardous. Their conversation crackles with venom, attraction, and unspoken obsession. From that moment forward, hatred becomes foreplay. Forced together through a government-mandated media ethics inquiry, Zara and Damon engage in months of intellectual warfare, strategic seduction, and dangerous vulnerability. What begins as manipulation shifts into an affair that’s equal parts toxic, tender, and terrifying. They meet in hotels under aliases. They send coded messages through news headlines. They argue until they kiss. They destroy each other’s logic while protecting each other’s hearts in the shadows. But secrets like theirs never stay buried. A leaked photo of them ignites a global scandal one that risks her career, his empire, and the fragile trust they’ve built in stolen nights and whispered confessions. As enemies close in, Zara must confront her deepest fear: that she’s repeating her father’s downfall. Damon must face a truth he never imagined possible he has finally found one person he cannot buy, silence, or replace. Together, they must choose between reputation and love, between power and truth, between public ruin and private desire. And the final verdict? Only they can write it.
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Thank you for giving CROSS-EXAMINATION a chance, it means so much to me and I hope you'll find it intriguing enough to stay till the end.

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Copyright © Hannah Taiwo 2025

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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters , businesses, places, events and incidents are either the product of the author's imagination or used in a fictional manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead or actual events is purely coincidental.