MINE TO GUARD

Phina Hayes doesn't stay where she isn't free to leave. As a forensic auditor she has built her life on exits: a packed bag, a second phone, a rule never to depend on anyone. Then she finds the numbers that don't add up at Marlowe-Kane Maritime. Billions in ghost cargo. A paper trail leading straight to the chairman.
Liam Dell has never once been free. Head of Asset Protection, raised inside the Kane household and bound to it by a debt he was born into, he follows orders. When the chairman tells him to hold the auditor at the clifftop estate until a merger closes, he does it. Seventy-two hours. Then seventy-two more.
Phina is locked in a house with the one man who can't let her go. Liam is trapped by the one woman who refuses to break. She fights him with her mind, he answers with command, and neither expects the hunger that ignites between them.
"You can hate me. You can plot against me. But you will not leave this house unprotected."
He tells himself he is guarding her. She starts to wonder who is guarding whom. As the lines between captor and captive blur, Liam must decide whether he'll keep serving the people who own him or burn down his cage to earn the woman who owns his obsession. Phina must decide whether surrender can ever be a choice when it begins with a locked door.
Some claims are taken. The only one worth having is given.