A dead man's file. A buried truth. And a SEAL who will put himself between her and a bullet.
Katherine Townsend doesn't trust people. She trusts documents, archives, the quiet certainty of ink on paper. Ten years at the CIA taught her that words don't lie-people do.
Jasper Perault doesn't do fieldwork anymore. The former SEAL-turned-tech-specialist made that clear when he joined Shadow Point Security: give him a screen and a problem to solve. Just don't ask him to be someone's bodyguard.
When Katherine walks into SPS carrying notebooks full of
He killed her brother in the line of duty. Now he's the only man she can trust to keep her alive.
Six years ago, Secret Service agent Sebastian Whitaker took a bullet in order to save the Vice President's daughter from an assassin. The nation called him a hero. Sebastian called it the day his life ended.
Now he's in Montana, working for Shadow Point Security, keeping his head down and his past buried. Until the girl he once saved is murdered outside Sutton Crenshaw's tattoo shop-and Sutton becomes the next target.
Sutton has spent six years blaming Sebastian for shooting her brother. But now a killer is after her, and with nowhere else to turn, she runs to the man she once believed destroyed her life.
Sebastian doesn't hesitate-he takes her in and steps between her and every threat that follows. But protecting her means facing everything he's tried to bury-the bullet, the headlines, the grief. Protecting her should be simple. Professional. Temporary.
It isn't.
Because Sutton isn't just the sister of the man he killed. She's wounded, fierce, impossible to forget-and the only person who can get past his walls.
And when they discover that her brother may have been part of something far darker than they imagined, they find themselves pulled into a conspiracy that could get them both killed.
evidence about a conspiracy she can't investigate without raising red flags, Jasper sees a straightforward consulting job. She sees the only man in Montana with the skills to keep her alive.
Because someone at the CIA wants her buried discovery to stay buried-and when an assassin arrives in Blackridge, the tech consultant who doesn't do fieldwork has to decide what matters more: the boundaries he built to keep himself safe, or the woman who makes him want to tear them down.
Click now to enjoy this opposites-attract, grumpy-meets-grumpy romantic suspense, with a heroine who fights with facts and a hero who'd rather hack a server than hold a gun-until she's the one in danger.
