He's kept presidents alive. Keeping her safe should be simple.

 

Caine Bennett built Iron Shield Collective from discipline, scars, and a past he never talks about. He’s been shot protecting the president. As a young boy, he witnessed his father’s murder, then lost his mother to the same killer a year later. He's seen it all. Nothing rattles him.

 

Until Sadie Drake walks into his office—a desperate whistleblower with a target on her back and a last name that hits him like a ghost out of the darkest chapter of his life. The information she has could bring down a powerful billionaire, and the secrets she’s carrying could finally answer the questions that have haunted

Caine for twenty-seven years.

 

To protect her, Caine would be forced to peel away his defenses and confront everything he's worked so hard to keep buried. But walking away from Sadie means losing the only lead he's ever had—and quite possibly the only woman who's ever gotten past his walls.

 

She was never supposed to matter. Now she's everything.