{"product_id":"blackwood-adrian-vale-9798185834978","title":"Blackwood: Serena: A Billionaire Romantic Suspense Novel of Boardroom Betrayal, Private Investigation, Family Secrets, and Dangerous Trust","description":"\u003cp\u003eSerena Blackwood sees patterns before anyone else knows there is a threat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut suspicion is not proof.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe is exactly the kind of man she needs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd exactly the kind of man she should not notice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristian 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA board member is not just meeting an advisor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA family secret is not as buried as it should be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd the closer Christian gets to the truth, the harder it becomes to keep his distance from the woman who hired him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSerena has spent her life managing everything from a distance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristian may be the first man precise enough to reach her anyway.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBlackwood: 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Adrian Vale\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798185834978\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/06\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 198\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.42d","brand":"Adrian Vale","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49174222307583,"sku":"9798185834978","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ec7abc20-3860-43ad-a116-2e0dcf4f1aea.jpg?v=1788958475","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/blackwood-adrian-vale-9798185834978","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}