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Dara: She can read everyone - Except the one who sees her
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ISBN10: 0974710849
ISBN13: 9780974710846
Publisher: Corporate Publishing
Published: Mar 8 2026
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780974710846
Publisher: Corporate Publishing
Published: Mar 8 2026
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
She believes beauty is leverage and intelligence is survival.
She has mastered both. She has the innate ability to read men, to read rooms. Brilliant. Controlled. Precise. In every room she enters, attention recalibrates. But there is one she cannot read - and that will change her future. Brilliance can be isolating, and admiration is not the same thing as being understood. From a college life funded by secrets, Dara has built a future she can control. She knows men. She understands desire. But love is different. Love does not follow a script and after years of performing, the lines between intimacy and illusion have blurred. When an international arms deal begins to unravel, Dara finds herself entangled with federal agents, Russian operatives, and a brilliant, enigmatic mentor who seems to know more about her past than he should. Coded messages. Scrubbed identities. A father who disappeared into classified silence. Her world becomes chaos. And a truth waiting just beneath the surface. She wants to leave the past behind and author her own future. Yet only one man can bridge the distance between who she was and who she is becoming - a bridge she sees, but is reluctant to cross. And only one man looks at her and sees a woman, not a performance. Because he sees in her something far more dangerous than brilliance. He sees her.
She has mastered both. She has the innate ability to read men, to read rooms. Brilliant. Controlled. Precise. In every room she enters, attention recalibrates. But there is one she cannot read - and that will change her future. Brilliance can be isolating, and admiration is not the same thing as being understood. From a college life funded by secrets, Dara has built a future she can control. She knows men. She understands desire. But love is different. Love does not follow a script and after years of performing, the lines between intimacy and illusion have blurred. When an international arms deal begins to unravel, Dara finds herself entangled with federal agents, Russian operatives, and a brilliant, enigmatic mentor who seems to know more about her past than he should. Coded messages. Scrubbed identities. A father who disappeared into classified silence. Her world becomes chaos. And a truth waiting just beneath the surface. She wants to leave the past behind and author her own future. Yet only one man can bridge the distance between who she was and who she is becoming - a bridge she sees, but is reluctant to cross. And only one man looks at her and sees a woman, not a performance. Because he sees in her something far more dangerous than brilliance. He sees her.
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