Coveted

She escaped a man who used love to control her. Now she’s falling for one who has to prove love means letting her choose.

Frankie Dillard escaped Brett Hagerty with her skills, her freedom, and one dangerous piece of evidence he never stopped wanting. Years later, she has rebuilt her life around rules no man gets to rewrite. Then a fraudulent engine arrives at the Ravens repair shop bearing a mark from Brett’s stolen-vehicle network, someone cuts Frankie’s throttle cable, and Brett makes it clear he knows exactly where to find what she took.

The last man Frankie should want beside her is Venom.

Before earning his Ravens prospect cut, Venom was Jason Mullins, a gifted con man who helped Brett disguise stolen vehicles, manipulate records, and turn other people’s trust into profit. Frankie should walk away the moment she learns how deep his past goes. Instead, every truth he gives her makes the attraction harder to ignore.

Venom wants his Ravens patch, but Frankie offers him something far harder to earn. She refuses protection that costs her freedom, affection that expects access, or reassurance built from carefully chosen truths. If he wants any chance with her, he has to give her every fact that could make her choose no and trust her to decide what happens next.

As Brett closes in, Frankie and Venom are pulled deeper into the same danger and closer to a desire neither can dismiss. She escaped one man who treated control as love. Venom must prove he can love her without ever taking her choices away. Because winning Frankie means giving her every reason to leave and becoming the man who lets her choose to stay.