Crash Landing on the Enemy

East and West are neighboring nations locked in a bitter hot war. While the East’s wealthy elite ignore the conflict, top oligarch Irina Kornilova—heiress to a vast oil empire—lives for danger and challenge. On a private mountain along the border, she tests her latest experimental gliding parachute, never expecting the stunt to change her life forever. A sudden malfunction and violent storm send Irina crashing across the border into the West. Injured and stranded, she is found by Captain Adrian Vale, a disciplined Western border officer who despises the Eastern oligarchs profiting from the war. To survive, Irina hides her identity and claims to be a lost civilian. As she recovers in his remote outpost, she witnesses the true cost of the war—and the quiet honor of the man guarding her. Sparks fly between captor and captive, enemy and protector. But their forbidden attraction is built on a lie. When Adrian discovers that Irina is not only the enemy’s richest woman but also the heiress whose oil fortune may be fueling the bombs falling on his homeland, betrayal cuts deeper than any border. Hunted by her own ruthless security chief, targeted by Western intelligence, and torn between two nations, Irina must decide what her power is truly for. As war profiteers on both sides conspire to keep the conflict burning, she risks her empire to expose them—and Adrian risks his life to cross the border one last time. In a world divided by war, can love survive when the woman he loves is the enemy—and the only one rich enough to stop the war?