Seriously Catalina

Sebastián Vega says Catalina Solís is beautiful, loving, unforgettable—and not serious enough for the future he wants.He ends their relationship during the rooftop anniversary dinner where Catalina planned to propose.Three days later, Catalina walks into Casa Aurelia determined to survive one ordinary job interview. Instead, a mysterious change sends her to the executive floor and into a conference room filled with candidates far more experienced than she is. Catalina should apologize and leave, but formidable crisis executive Helena Laurent notices something nobody else has valued properly: Catalina sees what people hide inside clothing, images, gestures, and carefully constructed stories.Helena creates a position for her inside Casa Aurelia's Brand Integrity division, where Catalina receives a private office, an impossible assignment, and the first professional opportunity that truly belongs to her.Then a counterfeit handbag appears.Hidden inside it is a photograph connected to a campaign designed to destroy Casa Aurelia through stolen collections, manipulated accusations, media pressure, and a spectacular false runway. Catalina's investigation soon reaches beyond corporate sabotage and into the fifteen-year-old death of Marisol Varela, a celebrated Mexican actress and singer whose final days were dismissed as the collapse of an unstable woman.Marisol knew someone was watching her.She knew the dress she had been forced to wear was counterfeit.She knew that if anything happened, powerful people would use her fear to make the truth sound unbelievable.As Catalina builds an investigative department with brilliant analyst Sloane Mercer and grows closer to guarded corporate attorney Nicolás Navarro, she discovers that the people surrounding Casa Aurelia have spent years transforming private relationships into professional weapons. Nico is carrying a family secret connected to the conspiracy, Catalina's former boyfriend unknowingly revealed more about her than she ever understood, and the wrong interview that changed her life may have been arranged to test how easily heartbreak could destabilize her.The people watching expected Catalina to become embarrassed, emotional, and controllable.They were right about the first two things.They were dangerously wrong about the third.From glittering runways and hidden hotel recordings to an abandoned warehouse, a public commission hearing, and a ship carrying the evidence of an international cover-up, Catalina must fight for the stories of women whose intelligence was ignored because it arrived with anger, fear, beauty, ambition, or visible emotion.Seriously, Catalina is a glamorous romantic suspense novel about counterfeit fashion, corporate espionage, buried history, and the difference between entering someone else's carefully arranged room and allowing them to decide who you become inside it.