Owen Maddox

He finished his architecture degree at twenty-two and joined the firm the same year, climbing faster than anyone until a mentor took credit for his breakthrough design and was promoted instead. He stopped trusting praise and started making himself indispensable through wins alone. Now twenty-six and competing for partner, he turns every pitch into a contest he can control. He lives in a Brooklyn loft lined with model buildings and works late in a glass office where the city lights frame every drawing. He wants to win and keep competing forever, but the person who matches him project for project has become the one thing he cannot design around.