Held In Plain Sight

Nico Thorne is the perfect gentleman. The perfect student. The perfect best friend.

For his whole life, he has been a fixture in the St. Patrick household. He eats at their dinner table, vacations in their guest house, and guards Amahle's brother like a brother of his own. He is the golden boy of Locust Grove, the heir to a legal empire, and the one person everyone trusts implicitly.

To Amahle, he is just the background noise of her childhood the cold, distant figure who never looked her way. But she was wrong. He wasn't ignoring her. He was studying her.

While Amahle thought she was invisible, Nico was memorizing her every move. waiting for the perfect moment to shatter the boundaries between them. He doesn't care about the decades of friendship with her brother. He doesn't care about the consequences.

When a devastating mistake threatens to ruin her family entire future, Amahle thinks she has nowhere to turn. But Nico is there. Ready to help. Ready to make it all go away.

She thinks he's her savior. She doesn't realize that in Nico's world, salvation comes with fine print. He isn't playing a game of chance; he's playing a game of control. And by the time Amahle realizes she's a pawn on his board, it will be too late to run.

He's always been close. Now, he's never letting go.