The Initiation Mini Vanessa has been able to

Vanessa has been able to see people's fortunes at the bottom of their teacups

the aesthete happiest in the company of artists and musicians

the fisherman who found the boy on the shore and who has been the subject of whispers connecting him to the drowning of Dorothy’s son years earlier

love has never been so deadly

The Initiation Mini Vanessa has been able toNo one knows how new members are selected to the board of Hale Banking and Holding. But there are rumors of a sordid rite of initiation. Whispers how one woman and nine men disappear into a boardroom. This time, that woman will be me. The Hale family owns everything the eighth largest bank in the world, everyone in our town, even the mortgage on my parents' mansion. And now Royce Hale wants to own me. He is charming. Seductive. Ruthless. But above