The Collateral Wife

This urban financial thriller uncovers a 12-year cross-border trust conspiracy of the Cross family. To pay her father’s huge debt, Elena signs a binding deal with tycoon Julian, surrendering herself to free her family. Julian pretends to covet her assets but hunts for Elena’s mother, the trust’s creator who faked her death — Elena’s bloodline is the biometric key to a trillion-dollar vault.Forced to work together amid parties, vaults and escapes, they clash in distrust yet fall for each other through deadly perils. Hunted by her stepmother, family traitors, federal agents and Vance family mercenaries, they survive poison and bomb attacks. Julian defied his own clan; the cruel contract was his way to guard Elena. Her mother hides in an Arctic vault to evade corrupt capital. After crushing the fraud, a dark-web list exposes the Arctic refuge. The pair heads into the frigid wilderness for the ultimate battle.