The Playboy's Audit
"Numbers don't lie, Mr. Blackwood. But men like you certainly do."
Valerie Adeyemi is Los Angeles’s sharpest freelance forensic accountant. Blessed with golden-brown skin, a razor-sharp mind, and a personal vendetta against white-collar criminals who ruin innocent lives, Val never misses a detail. She can dismantle a corrupt corporate empire by day and look stunning on a Santa Monica rooftop date by night. Her love life is active, her schedule is packed, and she has absolutely zero time for games.
Then came Dominic Blackwood.
Dominic is the infuriatingly handsome, effortlessly charming owner of Ivory—Malibu's most exclusive, glittering cliffside lounge. He lives like a man completely above the law, wrapped in tailored suits, expensive cologne, and a carefree playboy persona.
When Val tracks a multi-million dollar embezzlement trail straight to Ivory’s private servers, she walks into his office expecting to lock up a criminal mastermind. Instead, she finds a chaotic billionaire who is utterly delighted by her arrival.
But when the server logs reveal a deeper trap, they realize the truth: someone isn't hacking from the outside—they are framing Dominic from within his own building.
Forced into an uneasy partnership, Val must work alongside the one man her logic cannot predict. As they hunt a ghost thief through LA’s high society, the banter turns into sizzling chemistry. To fight the raw attraction, they both try to detour into dating other people—leading to crashed dinner dates, toxic levels of jealousy, and a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse where the ultimate stakes might just be Valerie's heart.
He’s a master of chaos. She’s the queen of order. But when the books are finally balanced, who will pay the ultimate price?