Jude the Architect

He controls the secrets. She makes a living exposing them.

Tamsin Bell has spent her career uncovering the truth powerful people would rather bury. As a fearless documentary producer, she's taken on corrupt politicians, ruthless developers, and the institutions that protect them.

But one encrypted message changes everything.

Someone has proof that the fire that killed her mother twenty years ago was no accident.

Following the evidence leads Tamsin into the darkest corners of South London's criminal and political networks—and straight into the orbit of Jude Tallis.

Beautiful, calculating, and terrifyingly patient, Jude doesn't need to raise his voice to destroy a man. Information is his weapon. Influence is his currency. And there's very little that happens in his city without him knowing.

Especially when it comes to Tamsin.

He's been protecting her from dangers she doesn't understand. He's also been keeping secrets that could destroy everything she believes about her mother's death.

The closer Tamsin gets to the truth, the harder it becomes to distinguish protection from manipulation, loyalty from obsession, and the man who wants to save her from the man who might ruin her.

Jude has spent a lifetime controlling the story.

But the woman he's obsessed with refuses to let him write her ending.

Book Two in The Crownless Kings, a high-heat dark romantic suspense novel featuring an obsessive antihero, a fearless investigative heroine, hidden identities, dangerous secrets, and a romance built on the battle for trust.