Power Play
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In a family like the Warrens', you don't ask if danger will find you-- only when.
After a near-fatal shooting shatters her privileged world by leaving her powerful CEO father clinging to life, Naila Warren is thrust into a world of suspicion, secrets, and suffocating security, all under the constant watch of her new bodyguard, Aaron Stone. A man as impenetrable as his last name.
Aaron is everything Naila resents: controlled, distant, unreadable, and determined to keep her in line, no matter how hard she tries to defy him.
But as danger circles closer, through the pressure of old grudges and new threats, what began as a mutual fight for power slowly transforms into something dangerous and far more vulnerable than expected.
In a city where loyalty is money and trust is a luxury, Naila must decide who she can rely on-- and how far she's willing to go to protect herself, her family, and the future she never asked for. Aaron, with secrets of his own, might be the only one who can help her untangle the truth... if she doesn't drive him away first.
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