Poison Laced Lips

Vivienne Elara V. Gozon spent six years becoming someone nothing could reach-valedictorian, BAR topnotcher, a seat at the country's most formidable la…w firm, and a past she has never once said out loud. She lasts about four days. Buried by a senior associate who never answers her questions and humiliated in front of the same junior partner three times in one week, Vivienne is quickly learning that surviving law school prepared her for none of this. Victorino V. Borja is the one they warn the new associates about. Exacting, unreadable, impossible to please. He is also, inconveniently, the only person in the building who seems to notice she is drowning-and he never says a word about it. Neither of them is looking for anything. That is precisely how it starts. But the firm's most valuable client is coming through those doors eventually, and when he does, everything Vivienne built comes apart in the space of a handshake. Then she will have to choose between the life she made and the truth she buried to have it-and find a way to stop him from burning his own life down first. Read more