They promise she won't live to November.
He's the ex–Special Forces wall between her and a bullet—and the one fire he can't put out.

When a death note lands on her windshield, incendiary columnist Delilah Monroe—senator's daughter, media wildfire—gets a bodyguard who doesn't knock: Jace Maddox, all rules and zero soft edges. Threats escalate from hacked countdowns to carved warnings and a dead-bird delivery. Jace moves in, rewires her penthouse, and rewrites her life—no press, no disappearing acts, no arguing with the man trained to be a shield.

Forced into a safehouse and relentless training, their proximity turns combustible—elevator walls, midnight surveillance, hands teaching her to shoot. But every breach says someone wants her taken, not just silenced—and a leak inside her world means nowhere is safe. When the grid goes dark and the bunker is hit, Jace will break protocol to keep her breathing; Delilah will refuse to be caged. Together they hunt the source before it hunts them—because survival isn't enough. She wants her life back. He wants the one thing he's never allowed himself: her.

High heat, high stakes, and a heroine who learns to be as dangerous as the man sworn to protect her.