The Case Against Falling

When the most dangerous case of Zuri Okon's career turns out to be the one she's building against her own heart, she discovers that some arguments can't be won. As a third-year associate at one of West Africa's most cutthroat law firms, Zuri doesn't do distractions. She doesn't do feelings. And she absolutely doesn't do Clinton Adam — Lagos's most brilliant, most infuriating, and most unreasonably attractive senior partner. Three years of careful professional distance, and she's never once let him see her reach. Then Clinton assigns her to a high-stakes divorce case, books them on a flight to Cape Town, and suddenly Zuri is trapped in a five-star resort with the one man she's spent three years pretending not to notice. It's just a case. It's just proximity. It's just the way he looks at her like she's the only person in the room — in every room — that's the problem. Because Clinton Adam doesn't play by the rules Zuri wrote to protect herself. He sees through the blazer and the bun and the gold-rimmed glasses straight to the woman underneath, and he is devastatingly patient about it. And the more Zuri tries to argue her way back to sense, the more she realizes that somewhere between Lagos and the Cape Town coastline, the evidence has shifted. She built her whole life around not falling. She may have just run out of precedent.