He’s a hardened warrior with no room for softness. She’s spent her life pretending she doesn’t need it. But when danger closes in, can they surrender to the truth they both crave?
Dion Blackwood has seen too much. As an ex-Marine turned billionaire nightclub owner, he channels his resources into one mission: rescuing trafficked women alongside his elite team. Love was never part of the plan. His scars—on the inside and out—are too deep, his world too dark. But when the latest rescue pulls a fragile, fierce-eyed social worker from the clutches of a nightmare, something in him shifts.
Emily Carter should be healing. She’s always prided herself on being capable, strong. But surviving a kidnapping has shaken her to her core—and so has the quiet, commanding man who carried her to safety. Raised by strict, joyless parents to believe that childish things are weak and shameful, Emily keeps her deepest desires buried: the comfort of cartoons, the soothing joy of coloring, the temptation to buy a stuffie she can’t explain. She’s always hidden that part of herself... until Dion.
She wants to believe in safe arms and whispered promises. He wants to believe he’s not too broken to offer them. But the monster who took her isn’t finished—and the deeper Dion digs, the clearer it becomes that the danger runs far deeper than one man.
Because something is rotten in the foster care system—and Emily might be the only one who knows enough to stop it.
She was supposed to be a survivor. Not his weakness. Not his everything.
And loving her might just get them both killed.
Genre: Romance
Dion Blackwood has seen too much. As an ex-Marine turned billionaire nightclub owner, he channels his resources into one mission: rescuing trafficked women alongside his elite team. Love was never part of the plan. His scars—on the inside and out—are too deep, his world too dark. But when the latest rescue pulls a fragile, fierce-eyed social worker from the clutches of a nightmare, something in him shifts.
Emily Carter should be healing. She’s always prided herself on being capable, strong. But surviving a kidnapping has shaken her to her core—and so has the quiet, commanding man who carried her to safety. Raised by strict, joyless parents to believe that childish things are weak and shameful, Emily keeps her deepest desires buried: the comfort of cartoons, the soothing joy of coloring, the temptation to buy a stuffie she can’t explain. She’s always hidden that part of herself... until Dion.
She wants to believe in safe arms and whispered promises. He wants to believe he’s not too broken to offer them. But the monster who took her isn’t finished—and the deeper Dion digs, the clearer it becomes that the danger runs far deeper than one man.
Because something is rotten in the foster care system—and Emily might be the only one who knows enough to stop it.
She was supposed to be a survivor. Not his weakness. Not his everything.
And loving her might just get them both killed.
Genre: Romance
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