Two years ago, Charlotte Massey destroyed my life and career with a single story. I rebuilt myself from the wreckage—harder, colder, and closed off to everything but work. Then I was handed a protection assignment and opened the file to find her face staring back at me. The woman I’d once trusted. The woman I’d taken to The Players Club and lost myself inside. The woman who ruined me. Now Charlotte is my client, an investigative reporter who got too close to a powerful businessman and has a target on her back to prove it. I should hand her case to someone else, but the moment I see her again—defiant, fearless, and impossibly beautiful—old anger collides with a desire that never died. Forced together in a remote safe house, the tension between us becomes impossible to ignore. Her stubbornness infuriates me. Her vulnerability breaks through defenses I thought were impenetrable. And somewhere between protecting her body and guarding my heart, the lines begin to blur. When Charlotte is abducted, I’ll break every law necessary to bring her home. But what we uncover exposes a criminal empire, devastating corruption, and a betrayal that changes everything—forcing me to face the possibility that the woman I blamed for destroying me might be the only one capable of saving me.