He didn't just buy her silence, he bought her secrets. Drowning in debt and running from collectors, Mira Vance signs a year-long contract to become the live-in housemaid of Blackwood Manor, no questions asked. Its master, Cade Blackwood, is cold, guarded, and bound by a centuries-old pact, the Accord that protects his family in exchange for a debt paid in blood and silence. His fiancée, Isabella, died trying to expose it three years ago. Mira didn't expect to find her own name waiting for her in a decades-old diary. Or to learn her mother vanished twenty-four years ago carrying the very proof that could destroy the Accord for good. As a murdered guard, a masked shooter, and a voice that sounds exactly like a dead woman close in around her, Mira realizes she was never hired by accident, she was chosen. Now, with rival families circling and the truth about her mother's fate buried deeper than anyone admits, Mira has to decide how far she'll go for answers. And Cade has to decide if loving her means finally letting the Accord and everything he's spent his life protecting, burn.