What if the man she hired to be her fake boyfriend is far more dangerous than she imagined?
Magdalena McCarthy thought she was hiring a pretend boyfriend to deflect her mother's relentless questioning during a family dinner. But what should have been just another awkward evening spirals into chaos when they're run off the road. Her "boyfriend" isn't who he claimed to be. He's not even the man she was supposed to hire. When they're kidnapped, she realizes that she's the real target in a deadly game—and her accidental "protector" might be the only thing keeping her alive.
Rook Chambers came to Glenville to start over from his violent past, not to get involved in someone else's messy life. But when boredom and curiosity lead him to play along with the strange woman who insists she's hired him to be her boyfriend, he finds himself thrust into Magdalena's world. But she's not just an innocent caught in the crossfire of his past life catching up with him—she's the target. Walking away isn't an option now, because in this deadly game, he might be her only hope for survival.
In a world where nothing is as it seems, Rook needs to draw on all the skills he thought he'd left behind to keep her safe, but can he ignore the growing attraction between them?