The scent of ozone and wet pavement clings to Vesper Thorne every time she returns from the skyline. She exists to keep this crumbling city from falling into the sea. Her newest assignment is a headache named Elara Voss. Elara is a journalist with a biting wit and a folder full of secrets. She has enough data to ruin every vigilante in the league. Vesper has to keep her safe in a cramped apartment while the hum of the city’s failing power grid vibrates through the walls. They are stuck together in a room that feels smaller by the hour. Vesper tries to focus on the mission. Elara tries to ignore the way Vesper moves. Every brush of a shoulder or quiet midnight talk makes the tension thicker. The truth is a weapon that could destroy them both. Vesper hides her gravity-warping abilities while Elara weighs her career against her pulse. They are moving toward something that feels more dangerous than the enemies outside. Can they survive each other when the lights finally go out? *** Legendary heroines, extraordinary powers, and one sprawling metropolis where the only thing more explosive than the battles they fight is the women they choose to protect. Neon lights flicker overhead, and the city below them never sleeps. It barely breathes. The Zenith of Desire series follows a league of women with extraordinary gifts - gravity manipulation, elemental fire, the kind of power that rewrites a room the moment they enter it. They protect a city that's always one crisis away from collapse. But the women who challenge them most aren't villains. They're rivals who become allies. Allies who become something harder to name. Between brutal battles and the quiet moments after, these women discover that raw power isn't what holds them together. Vulnerability is. And it turns out that's the most dangerous thing of all. Can they trust what they feel when everything around them is still on fire?