His Untameable Wickedness

Leontine Nigella Boswell did not survive hell to become anyone's victim.

She turned herself into a Manhattan powerbroker—formidable, ruthless when necessary, and wealthy enough to make powerful men listen. The child who once hid a knife beneath her thigh is gone. Or so Leo has spent years making the world believe.

Adrian Xerxes Cranford is a Royal Marines Crown operative trained to kill with his bare hands. Controlled. Lethal. Patient. He enters Leo's carefully ordered world carrying secrets of his own—and brings the past uncomfortably close with him.

He expects scars.

He does not expect Leo.

She neither needs rescue nor tolerates possession. Adrian can neutralise a physical threat in seconds; Leo has spent years ensuring no man will ever control her again.

Yet the more they collide, the harder indifference becomes to maintain.

Leo knows dangerous men.

Adrian knows dangerous missions.

Neither is prepared for the danger of wanting someone capable of getting past every defence they trust.