He spent twenty-three years making himself unreachable. She spent nineteen learning to disappear. São Paulo had other plans. When Ethan Cole — Manhattan's most precise corporate consultant — is forced to share an office with Maya Heyes, the one analyst whose methodology directly challenges everything he's built his reputation on, he expects a professional disagreement. He does not expect her to be right. Hired by opposing factions of the same collapsing Brazilian conglomerate, they have ninety days, one deadline, and a contractual requirement to produce a unified recommendation. Same floor. Adjacent desks. No exit. Maya reads organizations the way other people read faces — the invisible infrastructure of loyalty, resentment, and broken promises no spreadsheet captures. Ethan builds models that turn human complexity into elegant, defensible numbers. They are, by every measurable standard, incompatible. Except for the wound they share, which neither has ever named out loud. The real threat is what happens when two people who mastered the art of being unseen finally, accidentally, see each other. A slow-burn enemies-to-lovers literary thriller set in São Paulo's corporate world — for readers who want their romance to cost something, and their thrillers to hurt in the right places. Readers of The Silent Patient, The Love Hypothesis, and Twisted Love will not put this down.