Beautifully Hunted

He was hired to protect her life. He was never supposed to want to own her heart.

Vivienne Montrose has spent her life trapped behind glass, wealth, and carefully managed lies.

To the world, she is the ice queen of Blackwater Point, a sharp-tongued heiress with a fortune at her fingertips and a name powerful enough to open any door. But when an intruder breaches her penthouse, opens her private safe, and leaves a message from her dead father on her bed, Vivienne realizes the cage around her was never meant to keep danger out.

It was meant to keep her in.

Quentin Rowe is the kind of man powerful people hire when they need a problem eliminated. Lethal, controlled, and brutally detached, he lives by one rule: protect the client, do not get close.

Vivienne destroys that rule within hours.

He takes her phone. Controls her movements. Watches her every breath. Forces her out of her old life and into a world of sterile safe houses, hidden cameras, chemical trackers, and enemies who know exactly how to reach her. He is her bodyguard, her captor, her only shield against the Syndicate hunting her for an encrypted ledger she cannot yet decode.

And the closer he keeps her, the more dangerous he becomes.

Because Quentin was hired to guard her body, not crave her. Not need her. Not lose control every time another man gets too close.

But the enemy is watching them both.

The attacks are not just meant to capture Vivienne. They are meant to test Quentin, map his restraint, and prove that the most lethal thing about him is not his violence.

It is his growing obsession with her.

In a rain-dark city of old money, corrupted security, and criminal secrets, Vivienne must decide whether to trust the man who refuses to let her go. Quentin will break every rule to keep her alive, even if protecting her means becoming the very thing she fears.

Her sanctuary.

Her jailer.

Her only chance at survival.