When billionaire CEO Alexander Cross discovers his late father forged a secret empire built on oil smuggling through the Strait of Hormuz, he inherits a web of deceit stretching from Wall Street boardrooms to Iranian war zones. As the U.S. military launches strikes against Iranian vessels and a billion Hollywood merger threatens to expose his family's darkest dealings, Alexander must choose between the empire he was born to rule and the woman he was never meant to love. Elena Vasquez, a fiery investigative journalist embedded with the Navy's Fifth Fleet, holds the key to destroying everything—or saving it. In a world where the Strait of Hormuz burns and stock markets hit record highs on the blood of war, love is the most dangerous commodity of all.