“It’s simple. She matters to you, so I’m going to fucking kill her.”

James Rothschild used to fight wars for his country. Now he fights them in boardrooms and courtrooms, rebuilding reputations for the powerful and damned. The only thing more dangerous than the secrets he buries for Crest Strategies are the ones he keeps for himself.

Jenna Briggs is his forbidden weakness; the only secret he guards instead of erases. As head of security for Crest Strategies, she’s meant to protect, but he swears she’s slowly, agonizingly wrecking him. Their nights together are supposed to mean nothing, but every time she leaves his bed, she takes another piece of him with her.

When one of James’s buried secrets crawls out of its grave, all hell breaks loose. The ghost coming for him knows exactly how to hurt him, and it has claws. Jenna becomes the target meant to break him. Every threat drags them closer, every touch becomes a countdown.

Survival will mean choosing between saving her or saving himself. How long before they learn that a fire like theirs doesn’t fade. It consumes. It wrecks. It’s devastation dressed as devotion.

*A scorching dark-billionaire romance for fans of Ana Huang’s Twisted Lies and Sav R. Miller’s Promises and Pomegranates, where protection becomes possession and love becomes the most dangerous addiction of all.