Aftermath

She needed someone to save her. He needed someone to save.
Alessia Bianchi hasn't been able to breathe properly since she was eight years old and kidnapped from her bedroom. Sixteen years later, gunshots at a concert send her spiraling-until a stranger covers her body with his own.
Jake Martinez is an NYPD SWAT officer who lives for the rush of saving people. When he pulls Alessia through her panic attack, he sees someone who needs him. Desperately. Completely.
And for six months, they're everything to each other.
Until Jake's captain sees them together and recognizes her last name.
Bianchi.
As in Antonio Bianchi. As in organized crime. As in career suicide for a cop with ambitions.
Jake says he'll choose her. But when Alessia's father offers him a way out-a job, a future, a chance to have both-Jake walks away anyway.
Because loving her means betraying everything he believes in.
Shattered and drunk at a charity gala hosted by Manhattan's elite Birch family, Alessia meets Joel. A real estate developer from old money who's tired of being underestimated. Who looks at her like she's not broken. Like she's not too much.
And maybe, just maybe, like she's exactly enough.
But Joel's building in the wrong territory. The Russian mob wants him gone. And when the violence escalates, Alessia has to choose: ask her father for help and pull Joel into her world, or watch him lose everything.
The man who made her feel safe couldn't stay.
But the man who makes her feel secure might be brave enough to.

Mature Content | Trauma | Violence | Steamy Scenes
First in the Bianchi Sisters series