The Billionaire's Bodyguard
(2026)(The second book in the Phoenix Ridge Billionaires series)
A novel by Emily Hayes
Her bodyguard was supposed to save her life — not undress her with a single look.
Margot Blackwell built her empire on control.
Control of her company.
Control of her reputation.
Control of her heart.
As the formidable CEO of Blackwell Strategic Logistics, she is Phoenix Ridge’s crisis stabilizer — powerful, precise, and utterly untouchable.
Until a credible threat forces her board to assign executive protection.
Ash Donovan is disciplined, calm, and unshakably competent. A former military specialist turned elite close protection agent, she has never failed a client — and she never crosses professional boundaries.
Margot challenges every rule she lives by.
Forced into close quarters inside a glass-and-steel penthouse overlooking the harbour, tension simmers between the ice queen billionaire and the bodyguard who refuses to be intimidated. Every look lingers too long. Every touch feels deliberate. Every boundary begins to blur.
Margot hates needing protection.
Ash refuses to become a weakness.
But when danger closes in, they must decide what’s riskier — losing control… or surrendering to it.
The Billionaire’s Bodyguard is a high-heat, high-stakes sapphic romance featuring an age gap, forced proximity, power imbalance tension, and a guaranteed happily ever after.
Welcome back to Phoenix Ridge.
Genre: Gay Romance
Margot Blackwell built her empire on control.
Control of her company.
Control of her reputation.
Control of her heart.
As the formidable CEO of Blackwell Strategic Logistics, she is Phoenix Ridge’s crisis stabilizer — powerful, precise, and utterly untouchable.
Until a credible threat forces her board to assign executive protection.
Ash Donovan is disciplined, calm, and unshakably competent. A former military specialist turned elite close protection agent, she has never failed a client — and she never crosses professional boundaries.
Margot challenges every rule she lives by.
Forced into close quarters inside a glass-and-steel penthouse overlooking the harbour, tension simmers between the ice queen billionaire and the bodyguard who refuses to be intimidated. Every look lingers too long. Every touch feels deliberate. Every boundary begins to blur.
Margot hates needing protection.
Ash refuses to become a weakness.
But when danger closes in, they must decide what’s riskier — losing control… or surrendering to it.
The Billionaire’s Bodyguard is a high-heat, high-stakes sapphic romance featuring an age gap, forced proximity, power imbalance tension, and a guaranteed happily ever after.
Welcome back to Phoenix Ridge.
Genre: Gay Romance
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