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Blackwood: Serena: A Billionaire Romantic Suspense Novel of Boardroom Betrayal, Private Investigation, Family Secrets, and Dangerous Trust
Paperback
Series: Ruthless Empire, Book 2
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 6 2026
Pages: 198
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Serena Blackwood sees patterns before anyone else knows there is a threat.
From her Mayfair office, she manages power with precision, silence, and the kind of control that keeps empires intact. When a Blackwood board member begins meeting the same advisory contact in the same place, on the same days, Serena knows it is not coincidence.
But suspicion is not proof.
To protect the family empire before the wrong person finds the wrong structure, Serena hires Christian Chambers, a private investigator known for discretion, accuracy, and never going further than the work requires.
He is exactly the kind of man she needs.
And exactly the kind of man she should not notice.
Christian is used to reading people for a living. Serena Blackwood should be another client, another powerful name attached to a quiet problem. Instead, she becomes the one woman whose stillness matches his own, whose intelligence sharpens every room, and whose trust is far more dangerous than any secret he has been hired to uncover.
As the investigation moves from New York boardrooms to London offices, Gibraltar structures, Edinburgh property files, and hidden corporate histories, Serena and Christian uncover a pattern that reaches deeper into the Blackwood empire than either of them expected.
A board member is not just meeting an advisor.
A family secret is not as buried as it should be.
And the closer Christian gets to the truth, the harder it becomes to keep his distance from the woman who hired him.
Serena has spent her life managing everything from a distance.
Christian may be the first man precise enough to reach her anyway.
Blackwood: Serena is Book Two in the Ruthless Empire series, a billionaire romantic suspense novel about private investigation, boardroom betrayal, family secrets, dangerous trust, and a slow-burn romance between two people who notice everything.
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