HOLD ME HOSTAGE

She asked him to hold her hostage. He never imagined she'd be the one holding him.

Hailey Sinclair has spent twenty-six years being the smiling one: the perfect Dallas heiress with the famous last name, the fiancé her stepmother picked, and a trust fund everyone seems to want a piece of. Then she finds a ledger in her stepmother's coat pocket, and the smile finally breaks.

Every dollar taken from her inheritance. Every line marked approved. And one name standing in the way: W.H.

She runs. No phone, no plan, just a hidden key and a map to a Wyoming cabin her late father left her in secret. It's supposed to be empty.

It isn't.

Wade Holloway is forty-one, tattooed from wrist to collar, gruff, scarred, and furious to find a runaway heiress on his porch. He was her father's best friend. He's the co-trustee who stands between her and the people who want her signature. And he swore on a dead man's grave to keep her safe.

Then the blizzard shuts the pass. Three weeks. One stove. One bed.

"Hold me hostage," she tells him. "Don't let them find me."

He should say no. He's fifteen years older, honor-bound, and haunted by the wife he lost. She should walk away from the one man she's supposed to trust. But the longer they're snowed in, the less the rules hold, and the harder it gets to remember who's protecting whom.

When her family closes in and his ranch is on the line, the only thing left to decide is how far each of them will go to keep what's theirs.

Hold Me Hostage is a standalone, high-heat, emotionally intense erotic romance with a possessive cowboy hero, a heroine who takes her power back, and a guaranteed happily ever after. No cliffhanger.

Heat level: Fully explicit, high heat. Contains graphic love scenes, possessive dirty talk, and consensual power play between two adults. For readers 18+.

Tropes: Forbidden Love • Age Gap • Grumpy x Sunshine • Forced Proximity • One Cabin • Snowed-In • Cowboy • Tattooed Hero • Runaway Heiress • Possessive Alpha