Her Submission by Clara Beckett (The Chambers Series)

The first rule of the Bar? Don't fall for opposing counsel.

Lydia Cross KC never loses cases and never loses control, yet she cannot stop thinking about Priya Sharma, the warm and fearless scientist she should never want. When they face each other in a high‑stakes pharmaceutical fraud trial at the Old Bailey, professional distance is the only option. It lasts six weeks. Priya is used to holding people together, and Lydia is used to being obeyed, but their shift from opposition to surrender is slow and ruinous. Priya wants honesty, not just desire, and Lydia has never been honest with anyone, including the parents who do not know their daughter loves a woman. In court they fight for a woman's freedom, and behind closed doors Lydia learns what it costs to let someone in.