Book Two in The First Lady’s series Selene Delaire didn’t claw her way to the top just to play by anyone else’s rules. Tethered to a man who uses obsession as leverage and blackmail as foreplay, she walks a knife’s edge between power and peril. The deeper she’s pulled into the shadows of political power, the more dangerous the truth becomes—especially the truth behind Ghost Cargo, a secret so vast it could bring empires to their knees. When a familiar face from her past resurfaces, Selene isn’t sure if he’s come to save her or ruin her. And as Damian tightens his grip, obsession threatening to tip into madness, Selene must play every card she has left to outmaneuver the very machine that once tried to fix her. Because in this game, mercy is weakness and queens only rise when kings fall.