The Heiress Doesn't Blink: 1

A cracked mirror shows you what you're made of.For eighteen months, Odette Vale has executed a flawless deception. Publicly, she is the composed heiress overpaying for landscape paintings at elite art auctions. Privately, every dollar she bids is a coded geographical coordinate, funding her sister's covert extraction from their father's criminal empire. Her survival depends on absolute secrecy and suppressing every involuntary emotional response.Then her father brings in Dominic Rook.A former Defense Intelligence interrogator, Nico is hired under the guise of a security consultant to assess Odette's mental fitness. He is trained to detect the micro-expressions and physical tells she has spent her life hiding. As the final, most dangerous auction approaches, Odette finds herself trapped in an isolated estate with a man who sees straight through her armor. But as Nico begins to unravel the truth behind the coded bids and the forged paintings, the line between observer and protector shatters. To save her sister, Odette must trust the one man explicitly hired to destroy her defenses.