beneath his silence

He was hired to seduce her. He never planned on falling in love.

Anya Vale, a brilliant but reclusive cyber-security expert, lives off the grid after exposing a powerful crime syndicate years ago. Now under a new identity, she keeps a low profile-until she's dragged back into the shadows by a new threat: someone is hunting her for what she knows.

Enter Kieran Black, a cold, lethal, and devastatingly attractive man with a haunted past. Anya doesn't know he was paid to get close to her-to gain her trust, seduce her, and extract a highly encrypted drive she's been hiding.

But Anya isn't just smart-she's dangerously intuitive. She feels something is off, but still finds herself drawn to Kieran's silence, his scars, his presence. The slow-burning attraction turns electric. Their nights get hotter. Their secrets get darker.

And when Kieran starts catching feelings, he breaks the one rule of his mission: don't fall in love with the target.

Now he's faced with a

choice: betray her... or protect her and go to war against the people who hired him.

But Anya has secrets too. Secrets that could destroy everything.