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FBI Special Agent Isobel Hurley has faced down cartels, terrorists, and cold-blooded killers without flinching. So when she's assigned an undercover protection detail for the spoiled, reckless son of a powerful billionaire-someone the agency believes is the next target of a ruthless syndicate-she shrugs it off as routine babysitting.
Easiest mission of her career, she thinks. Pose as his new personal security consultant, keep the idiot alive, collect intel on the threats closing in. In and out in a few weeks.
Then she meets Xavier Donovan.
Charming. Arrogant. Far too intelligent for his own good-and dangerously unpredictable. What starts as a simple protection op spirals into something far darker: whispered threats that come from inside the family estate, encrypted messages only Xavier seems to understand, and a growing suspicion that the real danger isn't just targeting him-it's using him as bait.
Every instinct screams that Xavier is hiding something explosive. Every late-night confrontation pulls Isobel deeper into a web of secrets, lies, and forbidden attraction she can't afford. The closer she gets, the more she realizes the mission isn't about saving him.
It's about surviving him.
And as the syndicate's shadow tightens around them both, Isobel begins to wonder the most terrifying question of all:
What if the biggest threat isn't the enemy outside... but the man she's sworn to protect?