Downloading Hearts on the Stand: A Sweet Enemies-to-Lovers Lesbian Romance

I never anticipated Annie Moreau. To the rest of London, Victoria Greg is the "Ice Queen" a barrister with a heart of stone and a win record as sharp as her tailored suits. Victoria lives behind a shield of cold logic and high-stakes litigation, letting her career shine while she stays safely on the sidelines of life. She is one case away from the partnership she’s sacrificed everything for, until a ghost from her university days walks into the courtroom and changes the precedent. Annie Moreau was twenty when Victoria last saw her the brilliant, empathic girl who held Victoria’s heart before ambition tore them apart. Now she’s a formidable rival, and when a judge traps them both in "The Vault" a sunless, subterranean archive beneath the courts Victoria finds her carefully built defenses under siege. Amidst the smell of old paper and the electric charge of forced proximity, Victoria begins to long for the simplicity of their past, before the titles, before the secrets, and before the silence. Late nights in the dim light of the Vault with Annie are a balm for Victoria’s soul, but when she catches the amber heat of Annie’s gaze directly on her, she begins to worry for her heart. Because Victoria defends the truth it’s why she is so good at what she does but she’s never met someone who looks past the ice and sees her right back.