He was paid to destroy her. Saving her will cost him everything.

Forensic accountant Sloane Mercer has spent her career making numbers tell the truth.

Then she finds twelve identical payments buried in the books of Halcyon Industrial. Twelve payments following a chemical plant fire that killed twelve people. Twelve families whose silence appears to have been bought.

Before Sloane can expose what she's found, her career is destroyed, her bank accounts are frozen, and a stranger is waiting inside her apartment with restraints.

Then Dorian Cade walks through the door.

Thirty-eight, impeccably dressed, terrifyingly controlled, and dangerous in ways Sloane doesn't yet understand, Dorian is the only reason she escapes alive.

He's also the man who helped build the trap around her.

For fourteen years, Dorian has made inconvenient problems disappear for powerful clients. He knows how to ruin reputations, erase evidence, and frighten people into silence. But when his employer orders Sloane permanently removed, he chooses her instead.

Now they're running from the people who taught him everything he knows.

As Sloane follows the money through shell companies, hidden records, and a conspiracy with twelve dead workers at its center, the attraction between them becomes impossible to ignore.

Dorian wants to protect her. He wants to keep her. He wants things he's never allowed himself to want.

But Sloane doesn't belong to anyone.

And when she discovers exactly what Dorian did to destroy her life, saving her may be the one thing he can never make right.

He knows how to control everything. Except the woman who refuses to be controlled.

A dark, high-heat romantic suspense featuring a morally gray protector, forced proximity, dangerous secrets, obsessive attraction, consensual power exchange, devastating betrayals, and a hard-earned happily-ever-after.

Isla Wilde

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